Matthew 18:12 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 18:12

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray?

KJV

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?

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

How think ye,.... Or, as the Arabic, "what do you think?" what is your opinion of this matter? what is your sense of it? how does it appear to you? It is a Talmudic way of speaking, the same with מה א־תאם סבורין "what do you think?" what is your judgment? So the Rabbins, after they have discussed a point among themselves, ask (k), מאי סבירא לן, "what is our opinion?" or what do we think upon the whole?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Observe the gradation of the argument; the angels of God are their servants, the Son of God is their Saviour, and, to complete their honour, God himself is their Friend.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains - So our common translation reads the verse; others, Doth he not leave the ninety and nine Upon The Mountains, and go, etc. This latter reading appears to me to be the best; because, in Luk 15:4, it is said, he leaveth the ninety and nine In The Desert. The allusion, therefore, is to a shepherd feeding his sheep on the mountains, in the desert; not seeking the lost one On the mountains.

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Original language & word study

27 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Τί	Ti	What	G5101 →
ὑμῖν	humin	you	G4771 →
δοκεῖ;	dokei	do think?	G1380 →
ἐὰν	ean	If	G1437 →
γένηταί	genētai	may happen	G1096 →
τινι	tini	a certain	G5100 →
ἀνθρώπῳ	anthrōpō	man [has]	G444 →
ἑκατὸν	hekaton	a hundred	G1540 →
πρόβατα	probata	sheep	G4263 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πλανηθῇ	planēthēa	shall have gone astray	G4105 →
ἓν	hen	one	G1520 →
ἐξ	ex	of	G1537 →
αὐτῶν,	autōn	them,	G846 →
οὐχὶ	ouchi	surely	G3780 →
ἀφήσει	aphēsei	he will leave	G863 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
ἐνενήκοντα	enenēkonta	ninety	G1768 →
ἐννέα	ennea	nine	G1767 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
ὄρη,	orē	mountains,	G3735 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πορευθεὶς	poreutheis	having gone	G4198 →
ζητεῖ	zētei	will seek	G2212 →
τὸ	to	the [one]	G3588 →
πλανώμενον;	planōmenon	going astray?	G4105 →

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
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.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:25
  For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- 1 Peter 3:18
  For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- Psalms 119:176
  I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- Isaiah 55:7
  Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely…
- Romans 4:25
  He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
Through
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.’
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.
- Ezekiel 34:4
  You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- Ezekiel 34:11
  For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.