Luke 15:4 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:4

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

KJV

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

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Commentary

7 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition of the Gospel of Luke (397)

The woman did not idly rejoice to find her coin. The coin, having the image of the emperor, is not ordinary. The image of the King is the register of the church. We are sheep. Let us pray that he would be pleased to place us beside the water of rest. We are sheep. Let us seek pastures. We are coins. Let us have a price. We are sons. Let us hurry to the Father. Let us not fear because we have squandered the inheritance of spiritual dignity that we received on earthly pleasures.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book I (202)

Blending in one the production of their own Aeons, and the straying and recovery of the sheep [spoken of in the Gospel], these persons endeavour to set forth things in a more mystical style, while they refer everything to numbers, maintaining that the universe has been formed out of a Monad and a Dyad. And then, reckoning from unity on to four, they thus generate the Decad. For when one, two, three, and four are added together, they give rise to the number of the ten Aeons.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness - Where they used to feed: all uncultivated ground, like our commons, was by the Jews termed wilderness or desert. And go after - In recovering a lost soul, God as it were labours. May we not learn hence, that to let them alone who are in sin, is both unchristian and inhuman!

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

What man of you - Our Lord spoke this and the following parable to justify his conduct in receiving and conversing with sinners or heathens. A hundred sheep - Parables similar to this are frequent among the Jewish writers. The whole flock of mankind, both Jews and Gentiles, belongs unto this Divine Shepherd; and it is but reasonable to expect, that the gracious proprietor will look after those who have gone astray, and bring them back to the flock.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2065: “Our Great Shepherd Finding the Sheep” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1889)

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Original language & word study

28 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τίς	tis	What	G5101 →
ἄνθρωπος	anthrōpos	man	G444 →
ἐξ	ex	of	G1537 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	you	G4771 →
ἔχων	echōn	having	G2192 →
ἑκατὸν	hekaton	a hundred	G1540 →
πρόβατα	probata	sheep	G4263 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπολέσας	apolesas	having lost	G622 →
ἐξ	ex	of	G1537 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	them	G846 →
ἓν	hen	one	G1520 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
καταλείπει	kataleipei	leaves	G2641 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
ἐνενήκοντα	enenēkonta	ninety	G1768 →
ἐννέα	ennea	nine	G1767 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἐρήμῳ	erēmō	open field	G2048 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πορεύεται	poreuetai	goes	G4198 →
ἐπὶ	epi	after	G1909 →
τὸ	to	the [one]	G3588 →
ἀπολωλὸς	apolōlos	having been lost	G622 →
ἕως	he'ōs	until	G2193 →
εὕρῃ	heurē	he may find	G2147 →
αὐτό;	auto	it?	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
leads to
- Luke 5:31–32
  Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 34:16
  I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- Matthew 1:21
  She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- 1 Timothy 1:13–16
  I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- Luke 15:4–7
  “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
Through
1 Peter 2:25
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
leads to
- Isaiah 53:6
  We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- Ezekiel 34:6
  My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’
- Luke 15:4–6
  “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…