The Lost Sheep

And he spake unto them this simile, saying, — read the full passage →

`What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not--having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains--seek that which is gone astray? — read the full passage →

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

`What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

and he answering said, `I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'

so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,

I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

`What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it? — read the full passage →

A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, <FI>To<Fi> the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying--This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I--even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out. — read the full passage →

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

`What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not--having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains--seek that which is gone astray?

`Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I--even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out.

`Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find? — read the full passage →

and having found, he doth lay <FI>it<Fi> on his shoulders rejoicing,

And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

The weak ye have not strengthened, And the sick one ye have not healed, And the broken ye have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost ye have not sought, And with might ye have ruled them and with rigour.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

`I am the good shepherd, and I know my <FI>sheep<Fi> , and am known by mine,

Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--I am the door of the sheep;

and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep--the lost one.

Know that Jehovah He <FI>is<Fi> God, He made us, and we are His, His people--and the flock of His pasture.

and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;

for the Son of Man did come to save the lost.

`Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, — read the full passage →

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him, — read the full passage →

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us, — read the full passage →

and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

Lo, the Lord Jehovah with strength cometh, And His arm is ruling for Him, Lo, His hire <FI>is<Fi> with Him, and His wage before Him. — read the full passage →

And we, Thy people, and the flock of Thy pasture, We give thanks to Thee to the age, To all generations we recount Thy praise!

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

are they not all spirits of service--for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?

to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

Go astray do My flock on all the mountains, And on every high hill, And on all the face of the land have My flock been scattered, And there is none inquiring, and none seeking.

Hear a word of Jehovah, O nations, And declare ye among isles afar off, and say: He who is scattering Israel doth gather him, And hath kept him as a shepherd <FI>doth<Fi> his flock,

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John his brother, and doth bring them up to a high mount by themselves, — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack,

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,

saying--`Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!'

and having seen <FI>it<Fi> , they were all murmuring, saying--`With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'

but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?' — read the full passage →

And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd, — read the full passage →

A messenger of Jehovah is encamping, Round about those who fear Him, And He armeth them.

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),

`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying--in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;

and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to <FI>me<Fi> , and he divided to them the living.

and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: `Lo, the sower went forth to sow,

and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu. — read the full passage →

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, doing all these things.'

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock--one shepherd.