How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not. Matthew 18:12&13
And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. Luke 2:15&20
Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. Luke 15:6
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10:1-5&11&15
On Sunday 23th February 1997 the world woke up to events in the sleep Scottish village of Roslyn, near Edinburgh. Overnight it became the epicentre of one of the 20th century’s most stunning scientific breakthroughs. Horizon: Dolly: The Sheep that Changed the World, BBC 2023
The scientists needed a Plan B [Thatcher’s cutbacks]. They had to follow the money. The path led to the most lucrative and unsettling science on the planet – genetic engineering. ibid.
Bruce’s [Professor Whitelaw] plan was to put a human gene into a fertilised sheep’s egg. The egg was then place back into the surrogate ewe. ibid.