Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 15:3
He spake — Three parables of the same import: for the sheep, the piece of silver, and the lost son, all declare (in direct contrariety to the Pharisees and scribes) in what manner God receiveth sinners.
He spake — Three parables of the same import: for the sheep, the piece of silver, and the lost son, all declare (in direct contrariety to the Pharisees and scribes) in what manner God receiveth sinners.
THIS PARABLE - See the notes at Matthew 13:3....
CHAPTER 15 __ 1. The Murmuring Pharisees. (Luke 15:1) 2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:3) 3. The Parable of the Lost Coin. (Luke 15:8) 4. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Br...
LUKE 25. THREE PARABLES SHOWING GOD'S LOVE FOR THE LOST, AND HIS JOY AT THEIR RESTORATION. The three parables in this chapter have no definite note of time or place. An introduction is supplied from L...
THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
The tax-collectors and sinners were all coming near to Jesus to hear him, and the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." He spoke this parable to...
THIS PARABLE. It had already been uttered in Matthew 18:12 with another object (Luke 15:11), and with. different application (Luke 15:14). It is now repeated, later, under different circumstances ...
_he spake this parable_ Matthew 18:12-14. In these three parables we have pictures of the _bewildered_sinner (Luke 15:3-7); the _unconscious_sinner (Luke 15:8-10); the _voluntary_sinner ...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
THE LOST SHEEP...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
ΕἾΠΕΝ … ΤῊΝ ΠΑΡΑΒΟΛῊΝ ΤΑΎΤΗΝ. Matthew 18:12-14. In these three parables we have pictures of the _bewildered_ sinner (3–7); the _unconscious_ sinner (8–10); the _voluntary_ sinner (11–32)....
Ver 1. Then drew near to him all the Publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2. And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them. 3. And he spoke this parab...
ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить....
DISCOURSE: 1542 THE LOST SHEEP Luke 15:3. And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilder...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Lost Sheep (Luke 15:1-7) 15 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receives...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Parable of the Lost Sheep Scripture_ Luke 15:3-7 And he spake unto them this parable, saying, 4 What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, doth not le...
And he spake this parable unto them, saying, AND HE SPAKE THIS PARABLE UNTO THEM, SAYING,...
34-35 Compare Mat_5:13; Mar_9:50. 1 Compare Luk_7:34-35; Mat_9:10-13. 2 Our Lord's liking for sinners led the proud, self-righteous Pharisees and scribes to utter a most precious truth, though they,...
PARABLES OF THE LOST SHEEP, OF THEM LOST COIN, OF THE PRODIGAL SON 1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12. The first of a series of three parables for the encouragement of penitents. It...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *PARABLES OF GOD’S LOVE 15:1-32 1 INTRODUCTION 15:1-2 Jesus told three *parables as an answer to the *Pharisees. They did not approve of him beca...
CHAPTER 21 LOST AND FOUND. IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe of humanity, sending the pulsations of new excitemen...
τὴν παραβ. ταύτην : the phrase covers the second parable (_Lost Coin_) as well as the first. The two are regarded as virtually one, the second a duplicate with slight variations....
_The first parable_ (_cf._ Matthew 18:12-14)....
SEEKING AND FINDING THE LOST Luke 15:1-10 They that have left the fold in which they were nurtured in early life, and have gone over bleak mountains and through tangled brakes, find themselves in thi...
Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the great discourse of this chapter, consisting of a threefold parable. In...
CHAPTER 12 THE HUNDRED SHEEP Luke 15:1-7. Our Lord is still in Perea, east of the Jordan, with His face toward Jerusalem, traveling slowly, accompanied by vast multitudes, to whom, daily halting, He...
_The Lost Sheep._ God seeks sinners, because the sinner is a miserable being deserving pity: such is the meaning of this description. The parable is put in the form of a question. In point of fact, i...
2 _d. Luke 15:3-10_. The two parables of the _lost sheep_ and of the _lost drachma_, as such pairs of parables always do, present the same idea, but in two different aspects. The idea common to both i...
And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 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, un...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
_PENITENCE AND COMMUNION_ ‘This Man receiveth sinners.’ Luke 15:2 Among the many devices of the Enemy, against which the Christian has to be put upon his guard, one of the most dangerous is that of...
Having thus unfolded the difference in character between the two dispensations, and the circumstances of the transition from the one to the other, the Lord turns (chapter 15) to higher principles the...
AND HE SPAKE THIS PARABLE UNTO THEM,.... To the Pharisees, for their conviction and confutation; and to the publicans and sinners for their encouragement; and in vindication of himself; and not only t...
And he spake this parable unto them, saying, Ver. 3. See Matthew 18:12 ....
_And he spake this parable_ That he might justify his conversing freely with sinners, in order to their reformation and salvation, he spake the parable of the lost sheep, which he had delivered once b...
HE SPAKE THIS PARABLE; the three parables of this chapter contain each a vindication of the Saviour's conduct in receiving publicans and sinners. The point of them all is, that not what is safe, but w...
AND HE SPAKE THIS PARABLE UNTO THEM, SAYING,...
The Parable of the Lost Sheep:...
SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP (vs.3-7) Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would never choose a path of true discipleship if God did not seek him first. In this chapter we see t...
1-10 The parable of the lost sheep is very applicable to the great work of man's redemption. The lost sheep represents the sinner as departed from God, and exposed to certain ruin if not brought back...
Ver. 3-7. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 18:12", and SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 18:13", where we met with the same parable, though not related with so many circumstances. LUKE 15:7, which is the _epiparabole, _ sho...
Tertullian On Repentance in straying.[81] Tertullian Of Patience So, to, she is found in those holy examples touching patience in the Lord's parables. The shepherd's patience seeks and finds the st...
Luke 15:3 So G1161 spoke G2036 (G5627) this G5026 parable G3850 to G4314 them G846 saying G3004 ...
‘And he spoke to them this parable, saying,' Jesus, as He often did, answered them parabolically in front of the great crowd. The singular noun ‘this parable' may indicate the opening parable, or it...
THREE PARABLES DEALING WITH THE SEEKING AND SAVING OF THE LOST (15:1-32). It will have been noted how great a concentration there is in this section on preparing for the eternal future, and on the Ki...
MEN MUST LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN IN HIS GLORY (15:1-19:28). Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the city of David where He was proclaimed ‘Sav...
THE PARABLES OF THE SEEKING SHEPHERD AND THE LOST COIN (15:1-10). In these twin parables Jesus illustrates Heaven's concern over all lost persons, whoever they may be, and of whatever class they be, a...
Luke 15:3-7. THE PARABLE OF THE LOST SHEEP. Comp. Matthew 18:12-14, where the same parable occurs. There, however, our Lord brings out the preciousness of the one sheep (‘the little one'); here, the m...
Luke 15:3. WHAT SHALL I DO, etc. In his uncertainty, he carefully considered the case, and this is the point in which the children of this world are so often wiser than the children of light I HAVE...
Luke 15:2. WHAT IS THIS THAT I HEAR OF THEE, _i.e.,_ explain this report. RENDER THE ACCOUNT OF THY STEWARDSHIP. No previous reckoning had been made : regular statements were then unusual. CANST NO...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
CONNECTION. We have a single discourse, consisting mainly of parables, from chap. Luke 15:1 to chap. Luke 17:10. It was delivered during the journey from Perea to Jericho, and occasioned by the fact t...
THIS PARABLE (την παραβολην ταυτην). The Parable of the Lost Sheep (Luke 15:3-7). This is Christ's way of answering the cavilling of these chronic complainers. Jesus gave this same parable for anoth...
This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best exposition of it. The three parables recorded here set forth the wor...
Luke 15:1. _Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him._ However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; they recognized their Benefactor, so they gathered aroun...
We have read this chapter together many times; possibly some of us have read it hundreds of times; yet whenever we read it, we always find something fresh in it. It is ever bright and sparkling, full...
CONTENTS: Parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes. CONCLUSION: God has a particular care over backsliding sinners (Isr. in this case) and follows th...
Luke 15:1. _Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him._ The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own righteousness, as to regard all such characters as excluded from the co...
SUPPOSE ONE OF YOU HAS A HUNDRED SHEEP. Jesus gives three parables in this chapter to show God's love for his creation. A shepherd who lost one sheep would go out looking for it, even though the ninet...
_What man of you, having an hundred sheep_ LOST, SOUGHT, FOUND The three parables in this chapter fall into two sections, each setting forth separately one-half of a great truth, and both in combina...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 15:3 SO HE TOLD THEM. The following parables are directed to the Pharisees and scribes. The lost sheep (vv. Luke 15:4), lost coin (vv....
CHAPTER 15 Ver. 1. _Then drew near under Him all the publicans and sinners_. _πάντες_, all, that is, many came together to hear Christ, attracted by His sanctity and by the loving-kindness with which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 15:1. PUBLICANS AND SINNERS.—_I.e._, tax-gatherers, odious to the whole nation on account of their occupation and their unscrupulousness in carrying it on, and persons from whom...
EXPOSITION LUKE 15:1 The _Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the _"lost," _in which he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful._ LUKE 15:1,...
Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them (Luke 15:1-2). Notice the four groups tha...
CHRIST SEEKING TO SAVE Luke 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable. 1. WE HAVE THE SHEPHERD SUFFERING AS HE SEEKS HIS SHEEP. The parable describes...
In this parable Christ compares sinners to sheep going astray, and God the Father to. tender and careful shepherd seeking his stray sheep; wherein he secretly taxes the Pharisees for their uncharitabl...