One sheepfold

“I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” John 10:16
Jesus’ discourse in John 10 is an extended metaphor, with believers referred to as ‘sheep’ and Jesus Himself referred to as both the shepherd and the gate of the sheepfold. It stands to reason, then, that there is only one shepherd – Jesus Christ. (There is only one place where we can find protection from sin, from the devil, and from eternal death, John 14:6.) The ‘one flock’ resonates with Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” This is not to say that when we come to Christ we lose our nationality or our gender. But rather, in Christ, these distinctions are immaterial. We are all of equal standing before God – in contrast to what became the Jewish way of thinking, that the children of Israel had a higher status in heaven because they were descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Those of us who are Gentile believers are the ones being spoken of here as the ‘other sheep’ that will be brought into the sheepfold. In Romans 11 the metaphor of the Gentiles being grafted into the vine is used to convey the same truth.
There is one body of Christ, one vine, one sheepfold; all who are in it are equal before God.