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Matthew 18:12

Parable Parables
"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?"

— Matthew 18:12

Context

Jesus teaching about God's care for the lost

Surrounding Bible Verses

Details

Book

Matthew

Chapter & Verses

Ch. 18, v.12

Related Sayings

Matthew 13:3-4

"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up."

Matthew 13:23

"The seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."

Matthew 13:31-32

"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree."

Parallel Passages

Same theme (Parables) in other Gospels

Luke 8:10

"The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, 'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.'"

Luke 10:30

"A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead."

Luke 15:4

"Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?"