Johannes 10:13

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

en de huurling vliedt, omdat hij een huurling is, en geen hart voor de schapen heeft.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
want hij is een huurling en bekommert zich niet om de schapen.

Staten Vertaling
En de huurling vliedt, overmits hij een huurling is, en heeft geen zorg voor de schapen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

careth not: John 12:6, Acts 18:17, Philippians 2:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:39 - torn of Judges 18:4 - hired me Jeremiah 10:21 - the pastors Jeremiah 13:20 - where Zechariah 11:5 - and their Zechariah 11:16 - which Zechariah 11:17 - that leaveth 1 Timothy 3:3 - not covetous 1 Peter 5:7 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling,.... And has no propriety in the sheep; had he, he would abide by them, and defend them; but because he has not, he will not expose himself to any danger, but leaves them:

and careth not for the sheep; what becomes of them, providing only for his own safety. Abarbinel y has a note on Isaiah 40:11 which may serve to illustrate this passage:

""he shall feed his flock like a shepherd"; not as he that feeds the flock of others, for the hire they give him, but as a shepherd that feeds his own flock; who has compassion more abundantly on it, because it is his own flock; and therefore he saith, "behold his reward is with him", for he does not seek a reward from another; "and his work is before him"; for he feeds what is his own, and therefore his eyes and his heart are there.''

Which is not the case of the hireling; he does not care for them, he has not their good at heart; but the good shepherd has, such an one as Christ is.

y Mashmia Jeshua, fol. 20. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because he is a hireling - Because he regards only his wages. He feels no special interest in the flock.