MATTHEW 18:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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?”
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? The lost-sheep parable in Matthew's Community Discourse (contrast Luke 15's version which addresses the Pharisees' complaint about Jesus eating with sinners): the shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to seek the one strayed sheep is the image of the community's care for the brother who has gone astray.
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