The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A

The Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year A

Acts 2.42–7
1 Peter 2.19–25
John 10.1–10

It is easy to telescope these verses from St John’s
Gospel with verses 11–18. The second parable is
also about sheep, and it is much clearer and more
vivid, beginning as it does with Jesus’s statement,
‘I am the good shepherd’. But the parable we have
today is more enigmatic, and repays careful study
in its own right. Picture a group of sheep. They are
safe in their pen, which they know well, and they are
keeping an eye on the only way in and out – the gate.
A variety of people have been coming to that gate,
and the sheep are all a little wary. They like it best...

Taken from Lectionary reflections – Year A by Jane Williams

Published by SPCK