Lost Sheep

He told them this parable. — read the full passage →

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? — read the full passage →

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

Or what woman, if she had ten drachmacoins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? — read the full passage →

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? — read the full passage →

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. — read the full passage →

My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,but my Father only.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

I and the Father are one.”

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

He told them this parable.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. — read the full passage →

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace be to you.” — read the full passage →

Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, — read the full passage →

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. — read the full passage →

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. — read the full passage →

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.