Our Good Shepherd as the Suffering Servant

One New Man starts a new format following the revised common lectionary which usually presents a weekly Old testament, psalm, epistle, and gospel scriptural passage with common themes. We study the weekly lectionary scriptures to try to discern the most important common themes. The "Fourth Sunday of Easter" lectionary scriptures are: Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23, 1Peter 2:19-25, John 10:1-10. Peter points to Yeshua our suffering servant prophesied to come in Isaiah 53 and confirmed in 1 Peter 2:19-25. John 10 presents Yeshua/Jesus as our "Good Shepherd" who states in John 10:7-10 "So Jesus again said to them, "Truly,truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." Acts 2:46-47 describes the overflowing Spirit among the saints: "And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved."