Sheep Are Led. Cattle Are Driven. What Ancient Shepherding Reveals About Yeshua’s Teaching Most modern readers come to Yeshua’s shepherd imagery in John 10 carrying assumptions shaped more by Western ranching than by first-century Judean practice. In the American West, cattle are driven — pushed from behind by workers on horseback, directed by noise and pressure. Sheep, in that same cultural imagination, get herded the same way. But that picture gets the ancient world exact