In our time, few of us remember a scene which in the past was very common; I am referring to a shepherd tending his flock. In the time of Jesus, the countryside was filled with sheep and shepherds took care of them. At that time there were two types of shepherds: there was the shepherd who owned a small flock and went out to tend it himself, and there was the hired shepherd. The former was most likely a family man, living in a certain poverty from what the land and his flock