Luke 19:10 — Community Reflections

LUKE 19:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 1

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost — the mission statement of the Son of Man: to seek and to save the lost (to apolōlos, the lost one, the perishing one). The Zacchaeus story is the enacted parable of the lost coin and the lost sheep — the Son of Man as the seeker who goes after the lost rather than waiting for them to come.

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Omar HassanNote1mo ago

To Seek and Save the Lost

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.' This is Jesus's summary of his mission in response to Zacchaeus's transformation. Not to judge, not to teach ethics, not to establish a politica...