Luke 15:6 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:6

comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and his neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.

KJV

And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

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Commentary

6 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 Medieval Church1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 34 (604)

And coming home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: "Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost." Having found the sheep, he returns home because our Shepherd, having restored man, returned to the heavenly kingdom. There he finds friends and neighbors, namely those choirs of angels who are his friends because they continuously guard his will in their steadfastness. They are also his neighbors because they perpetually enjoy the brightness of his vision through their constant presence.

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

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

THE love of Jesus, the Great Shepherd, is very practical and active. There is a sheep lost and the Lord regrets it. But His love does not spend itself in regrets. He arises and goes forth to seek and to save that which was lost. The love of Jesus Christ is love not in word only but in deed and in truth. The love of Jesus is prudent. He does not wait until the sheep is willing to return, or until it makes some attempt to come back.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1858)

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐλθὼν	elthōn	having come	G2064 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
οἶκον	oikon	house	G3624 →
συγκαλεῖ	sugkalei	he calls together	G4779 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
φίλους	philous	friends	G5384 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
γείτονας	geitonas	neighbours	G1069 →
λέγων	legōn	saying	G3004 →
αὐτοῖς·	autois	to them;	G846 →
συγχάρητέ	sugcharēte	do rejoice with	G4796 →
μοι,	moi	me,	G3165 →
ὅτι	hoti	for	G3754 →
εὗρον	heuron	I have found	G2147 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πρόβατόν	probaton	sheep	G4263 →
μου	mou	of mine	G3165 →
τὸ	to	the [one]	G3588 →
ἀπολωλός.¶	apolōlos	having been lost!	G622 →

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
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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 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…
- Acts 20:28
  Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- John 10:11–16
  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
Through
Luke 15:24
For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
leads to
- Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ephesians 2:5
  made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
Through
Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
leads to
- Luke 15:7
  In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.