Quotes About Community

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peterís brother, said to Him,

“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”

Then Jesus took the loaves and the fish, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted.

So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus replied.

I am the bread of life.

Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

Then each went to his own home.

At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isnít this the man who used to sit and beg?”

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,

I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Again there was division among the Jews because of Jesusí message.

But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.

My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

And many in that place believed in Jesus.