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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 18:12 - 18:12
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How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, etc. - This is another of those pregnant sayings which our Lord uttered more than once. See the delightful parable of the lost sheep in Luk 15:4-7. Only the object there is to show what the good Shepherd will do, when even one of His sheep is lost, to find it; here the object is to show, when found, how reluctant He is to lose it. Accordingly, it is added,