Dearest brethren, Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow His steps; Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth; Who, when He was reviled, did not revile. When He suffered, he threatened not, but delivered Himself to him that judged Him unjustly; Who His own self bore our sins in His body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by Whose stripes you were healed. For you were as sheep going astray, but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls. (
1 Peter 2, 21-15, the Epistle of Good Shepherd Sunday.)
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| The base of the pulpit in the church of St John in Mechlin, Belgium, by Theodore Verhagen, 1736-41 |
