to guard the gate during the night and to admit the shepherds in the morning. The shepherds would call their sheep, each of whom knew his own shepherd’s voice, and would lead them out to pasture. We saw from the context of this parable that by it Jesus was referring to his role in calling his own sheep out of Judaism. The second kind of sheep pen was not public, nor was it in the villages. This sheep pen was in the countryside, where the shepherds would keep their flocks in good weather. Presumably