9, 10. How did Jesus fit his own description of a shepherd, and how did Israelite shepherds deal with their sheep?

⁹ Jesus matched his own description of the True and Fine Shepherd, as stated in these words at John 10:1-5

A stranger they will by no means follow but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

12. Who were the “strangers” that Jesus spoke of, and how was that the case?

¹² Other Israelites who came and claimed to be the promised Messiah, or Christ, were the ones whom Jesus branded as strangers. They failed to be introduced as Jehovah’s Messianic Shepherd by his appointed “doorkeeper,” who was John, the one to whom Jesus himself came in order to be baptized.