See the notes at Matthew 18:12....
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...
WHEN HE COMETH. having come. HOME. into (Greek. _eis._ App-104.) the house. WITH ME. not with the sheep (because of the scope of the parable). See note on Luke 15:3. The joy is in heaven (Luke 15:7)...
_calleth together his friends and neighbours_ See on Luke 14:12. _Rejoice with me_ "For the _joy_set before Him, He endured the cross," Hebrews 12:2; comp. Isaiah 53:11....
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...
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...
THE LOST SHEEP...
ΣΥΝΚΑΛΕΙ͂ ΤΟῪΣ ΦΊΛΟΥΣ ΚΑῚ ΤΟῪΣ ΓΕΊΤΟΝΑΣ. See on Luke 14:12. ΣΥΝΧΆΡΗΤΈ ΜΟΙ. “For the _joy_ set before Him, He endured the cross,” Hebrews 12:2; comp. Isaiah 53:11....
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...
ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, ΣΥΓΚΑΛΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΓΚΑΛΈΩ (G4779) созывать вместе. _Praes._ является hist, _praes._, придающим живость и яркость повествова...
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 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. AND WHEN HE COMETH HOME, HE CALLETH TOGETHER HI...
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...
HE CALLETH TOGETHER HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS. — The recurrence of the two words so soon after Luke 14:12 is suggestive. There are times when we do well to recognise the natural and social ties that...
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...
συγκαλεῖ : the point here is not the formal invitation of neighbours to sympathise, but the confident expectation that they will. That they do is taken for granted. Sympathy from neighbours and friend...
_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...
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...
_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...
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...
_THE SHEEP FOUND_ ‘Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.’ Luke 15:6 A beautiful sight to see the shepherd in Palestine sitting amid his flock, or walking with his staff, while...
_LOST AND FOUND_ ‘Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep … [and] the piece which I had lost.’ Luke 15:6 We have here two beautiful pictures. Though the lesson to be learned from each is the sam...
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 WHEN HE COMETH HOME,.... The house, or home, to which Christ comes and brings thither his lost sheep on his shoulders when found, is either the church of God, which is Christ's house and home, and...
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. Ver. 6. See Matthew 18:13 ....
_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...
The lost sheep. Matthew 18:11-14....
AND WHEN HE COMETH HOME, HE CALLETH TOGETHER HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, SAYING UNTO THEM, REJOICE WITH ME; FOR I HAVE FOUND MY SHEEP WHICH WAS LOST....
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...
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A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop which being found Christ brings back, bearing on His shoulder the tender sinful one; and He, rejoicing and exulting, having called His f...
Luke 15:6 And G2532 comes G2064 (G5631) G1519 home G3624 together G4779 (G5719) friends G5384 and...
“And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost'.” Arriving home the shepherd calls together his f...
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 15:6. HUNDRED MEASURES, or, ‘baths,' = the Ephah in dry measure, nearly ten gallons. TAKE THY BILL, lit, ‘writings.' The document in the steward's hands, showing the obligation. QUICKLY. The...
Luke 15:6. And when he cometh home. This refers to the whole process by which the ignorant and bewildered sinner is brought into safety. It does not mean, brought to heaven personally, but where there...
Luke 15:5. EACH ONE OF HIS LORD'S DEBTORS. The debtors were scarcely tenants or contractors, but more probably men who had bought and not yet paid for certain stores belonging to the rich man. SAID...
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...
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...
REJOICE WITH ME (συνχαρητε μο). Second aorist passive of συνχαιρω, an old and common verb for mutual joy as in Philippians 2:17. Joy demands fellowship. Same form in verse Luke 15:9. So the shepher...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:25; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 3:7;...
With me. "Not with the sheep. Our life is his joy" (Gregory, cited by Trench)....
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...