Then the shepherds (poimenes | ποιμένες | nom pl masc) returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.
When the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds (poimenes | ποιμένες | nom pl masc) began to speak to one another, “Let us go across to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.”
And Jesus said to them, “All of you will fall away, because it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd (poimena | ποιμένα | acc sg masc), and the sheep will be scattered.’
When Jesus got out of the boat, he saw the large crowd, and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd (poimena | ποιμένα | acc sg masc). And he began to teach them many things.
Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this very night. For it stands written, ‘I will strike the shepherd (poimena | ποιμένα | acc sg masc), and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd (poimēn | ποιμήν | nom sg masc) separates the sheep from the goats;