Phillip Fletcher reminds us that Jesus, being the Good Shepherd, seeks to intimately know His sheep. He desires to be with them and to know them intimately, so much so that, like any shepherd, he most likely took on the aroma of His sheep. Fletcher asks, "The leper that Jesus touched, was his aroma fragrant like a rose or the aroma of decaying flesh? What did Jesus smell like, as He went in and among the people that needed repentance and hope and then left them to travel to others? And how should shepherds (pastors) smell?"
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