Parable of straying sheep (Luke 15:4-7); may seem less appropriate here than in Lk., but has even here a good setting, amounting to a climax = God cares not only for the lowly and little but even for the low the morally erring. In both places the parable teaches the precious characteristically Christian doctrine of the worth of the individual at the worst to God.
Verse Matthew 18:12. _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 MOUNT...
To show still further the reason why we should not despise Christians, he introduced a parable showing the joy felt when a thing lost is found. A shepherd rejoices over the recovery of one of his floc...
6. INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS DISCIPLES. CONCERNING FORGIVENESS. CHAPTER 18 1. Concerning the Little Ones and Offences. (Matthew 18:1 .) 2. The Son of Man to Save What is Lost. (Matthew 18:11 .) 3. The Chu...
A CONVERSATION WITH THE TWELVE. For Matthew 18:1, the question of precedence, _cf._ Mark 9:33 *, also Matthew 20:26 f., Mark 10:43 f.,...
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (Matthew 18:1-35) Matthew 18:1-35 is a most important chapter for Christian Ethics, because it deals with those qualities which should characterize the personal relationships o...
"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine, and go out to the hills, and will he not seek the wandering one? And if he finds it--...
Christ's care for His Little Ones illustrated by a Parable. Luke 15:3-7 After a brief digression (Matthew 18:7), Christ's love for His young disciples again breaks out in words. Let no one despise th...
This parable is followed in Luke by the parable of the Lost Drachma and that of the Prodigal Son which illustrate and amplify the same thought. _doth he not leave the ninety and nine_ St Luke adds "i...
CHRIST’S CARE FOR HIS LITTLE ONES ILLUSTRATED BY A PARABLE Luke 15:3-7. After a brief digression (Matthew 18:7-9), Christ’s love for His young disciples again breaks out in words. Let no one despise...
The expression and the imagery of the parable recall Ezekiel 34; comp. also ch. Matthew 15:24. In Luke the parable is spoken with direct reference to publicans and sinners, whom the Pharisees despised...
Ver 10. "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. 11. For the Son of man is co...
_THE HEART OF A CHRISTIAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY CONCERN FOR OTHERS MATTHEW 18:10-14:_ God is concerned about the individual. Christians should share that concern. "Even so it is not the will of your Fat...
ΤΊ ΎΜ ΔΟΚΕΊ "что вы думаете?" (_см._ Matthew 17:25). ΓΈΝΗΤΑΙ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) с _dat._ указывает на обладание: "Если бы у некоего человека было..." _Conj._ ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _c...
DOTH HE NOT LEAVE THE NINETY AND NINE— This might be rendered, _Would he not leave the ninety and nine on the mountains_ (in their pasture or _fold_) _and go out to seek,_ &c.? See this parable in Luk...
B. THE GOOD SHEPHERD CAME TO SEEK THE LOST LITTLE ONES. (18:11-13) Matthew 18:11 is omitted in the better manuscripts, because Matthew probably did not write it. The owner of a manuscript copy rightly...
Section 46 JESUS TRAINS THE TWELVE IN PERSONAL RELATIONS (Parallels: Mark 9:33-50; Luke 9:46-50) TEXT: 18:1-35 A. Humility and True Greatness 1 In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Wh...
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? HOW THINK Y...
24 See Exo_30:11-16; Exo_38:25-26. 24 According to the law every one who was numbered in Israel, being over twenty years of age, paid half a shekel to shelter his soul (Exo_30:12-14). It was used for...
PARABLE OF THE LOST SHEEP, 'which is intended to show that it would be in direct opposition to God's desire for human salvation to lead astray one of those little ones, and to cause him to be lost, li...
OFFENDING THE LITTLE ONES. THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT 1-14. Ambition reproved, and humility taught by the example of a little child (Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 18 Chapter 18 is the fourth section of what Jesus taught. It ends in the same way as the other sections ‘Now when Jesus had finished...
IF A MAN HAVE AN HUNDRED SHEEP. — The parable is repeated more fully in Luke 15:4, and will best find its full explanation there. The fact that it reappears there is significant as to the prominence,...
SAVING THE STRAYING Matthew 18:10-20 How tenderly the Master speaks of the children! We must turn back to become like them, Matthew 18:3. To cause them to stumble is to incur terrible penalties, Mat...
What a sad state of heart prompted this question! How absolutely opposed to the whole genius of the Master's teaching and example! He replied by an act, and a statement growing out of that act. The ch...
If a man have a hundred sheep. This is to shew the goodness and mercy of God towards sinners. By the one sheep, some understand all mankind, and by the ninety-nine, the angels in heaven. (Witham) ---...
"Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! (8) Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and c...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
12._What think you? _Luke carries the occasion of this parable still farther back, as having arisen from the _murmurings _of the _Pharisees and scribes _against our Lord, whom they saw conversing dail...
In chapter 18 the great principles proper to the new order of things are made known to the disciples. Let us search a little into these sweet and precious instructions of the Lord. They may be looked...
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...
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? Ver. 12. _Dot...
_How think_ ye What do you think would be the conduct of a faithful shepherd? _If a man have a hundred sheep, and_ but _one of them_ wander from the rest, _and go astray, doth he not leave the ninety...
Though the Lord Jesus has been seen to forego His own rights, He who is by right infinitely great, the disciples show the opposite attitude in desiring some rights above those of others in the kingdom...
7-14 Considering the cunning and malice of Satan, and the weakness and depravity of men's hearts, it is not possible but that there should be offences. God permits them for wise and holy ends, that t...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Thus she, passing from body to body, and suffering insults in every one of them, at last became a common prostitute; and she it was that was meant by the lost sheep....
Matthew 18:12 What G5101 you G5213 think G1380 (G5719) If G1437 G5100 man G444 has G1096 ...
a “How do you think about this? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray,” Here in context the hundred sheep represent the new community, His new congregation. They are those who...
THE LITTLE ONES ARE SO IMPORTANT TO GOD THAT IF ONE GOES ASTRAY HE SEEKS THEM UNTIL HE FINDS THEM (18:11-14). Jesus here uses the idea of the shepherd seeking his sheep, which was something that happe...
“Does he not leave the ninety and nine, and go to the mountains, and seek that which is going astray?” And what does the Shepherd do when He finds that one has gone astray? Why, He goes out into the m...
Matthew 18:12. HOW THINK YE. This parable (with a similar one) was spoken on a later occasion to a different audience (Luke 15:4-7). Here it is a lesson for the disciples (the under-shepherds), showin...
The whole chapter forms one discourse, delivered upon one occasion, after the return to Capernaum, probably immediately succeeding the miracle just mentioned. Two distinct topics are spoken of: the _f...
LEAVE THE NINETY AND NINE (αφησε τα ενενηκοντα εννεα επ τα ορη κα πορευθεις ζητε το πλανωμενον?). This is the text of Westcott and Hort after BL, etc. This text means: "Will he not leave the ninety...
Matthew 18:10 Think of His words, and you will see, first, that Jesus isolates each of us, setting us one by one apart: "despise not _one;_" He is come to save that one; "if one of them be gone astray...
Matthew 18:12 I. Look at the figure of the one wanderer. (1) All men are Christ's sheep. All men are Christ's, because He has been the Agent of Divine creation, and the grand words of the hundredth Ps...
Matthew 18:1. _At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The question we have sometimes heard asked in other forms, «Which is the highest...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the child text. Discipline in the church. Unity in prayer. Law of forgiveness. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter. CONCLUSION: Those are truly great who are truly humble and good, and...
Matthew 18:1. _Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The comparative μειζων _greater,_ is put here for the superlative. By the kingdom of heaven, they meant the worldly glory of the church in...
WHAT DO YOU THINK? This parable is to show how God feels about these "little ones" which the Jews despise. The shepherd takes time to look for the sheep that is lost. Jesus is the "Good Shepherd....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:1 The Community of the Messiah Revealed. This is the fourth of Jesus’ five major teachings in Matthew’s Gospel (see Introduction: Key Themes). Jesus instructs his disciples...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:12 A HUNDRED SHEEP, AND ONE OF THEM HAS GONE ASTRAY. Here the wandering sheep represents a believer. ⇐...
1-35 CHAPTER 18 _At that time came_, &c. There seems to be a discrepancy here with Mark 9:31, where it is said that the disciples disputed about this matter in the way, and that afterwards, when they...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 18:5. ONE SUCH LITTLE CHILD.—Whether literally or only morally a little child. Our Saviour had reference, we doubt not, to both phases of childhood. That He refers to literal...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 18:1 _Discourse concerning the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and the mutual duties of Christians_._ _(Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46-42.)...
Now at the same time there came disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (Matthew 18:1) Oh, boy how they longed for this. You're talking about motivation, and the disc...
1 Corinthians 10:15; 1 Kings 21:17; 1 Peter 2:25; Ezekiel 34:12;...
Leave upon the mountains. The text here is disputed. Both A. V. and Rev. follow a text which reads : "Doth he not, leaving the ninety and nine, go into the mountains ?" Rather join leave with on the m...
Luke 15:4....