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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-10

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, and stresses that His purpose in coming is to reach out to them and find them. He has the love of the shepherd for his wayward sheep. He has concern at the loss of a treasured possession. At the same time it illustrates God’s election of those who are His, and whom He has given to His Son (John... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32

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 ‘Saviour’ and ‘Lord Messiah’; and in Section 2 that as ‘the Son of God’ Jesus had faced His temptations as to what His Messiahship would involve and defeated the Tempter; and that in Section 3 He had proclaimed in parables the secrets of ‘the Kingly Rule of God’; and had in Section 4 taught His... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:2

‘And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man receives sinners, and eats with them.’ It is clear that Jesus welcomed these ‘public servants and sinners’ openly (compare Luke 5:30; Mark 2:15-16) and was willing to eat among them, quite probably often in a kind of picnic situation (as when the five thousand were fed), although no doubt sometimes being invited to people’s houses. And this was so much so that the Pharisees muttered among themselves at what they saw to be His... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:3

‘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 may signify ‘spoke parabolically’. ‘Them’ includes all who are in the crowd. He was being publicly criticised, He now gave a public reply. In His parable (‘this parable’) He demonstrated that He was merely behaving like the shepherds of Israel should have behaved (compare Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 49:22;... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:4

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness (the semi-desert pasture-land), and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” Jesus deliberately addresses the ‘sinners’ among the crowd by saying, ‘Which man of you’, indicating by this that He is classing His listeners with shepherds, who were seen as almost permanently unclean, and as rogues into the bargain. (It probably made the Pharisees cringe to think that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:5

“And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.” Note that in this narrating of the parable success is assumed. It is not ‘if’ He finds it, but ‘when’ He finds it (contrast Matthew 18:13, which demonstrates that the parable there was given on a different occasion. The emphasis of the parable would vary depending on the emphasis Jesus wished to lay). This carrying of the sheep on his shoulders would be normal practise for a shepherd. The sheep would be exhausted, and the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32

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 Luke 5:29 f. ( Mark 2:15 f.). Both the introduction (sinners crowding to hear Jesus) and the parables strike the new noto that Jesus came to sound— the direct interest in and appeal to the outcast ( cf. p. 622). “ This parable” ( Luke 15:3) must mean the parabolic discourse, embracing the three... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:1-2

I have so often taken notice, that the term all in the New Testament is very often used to signify, not all the individuals of that species, or order of men, to which it is applied, but only a great and considerable number of them, that it is needless again to repeat it. None can imagine, that every individual publican and sinner in those parts, where Christ now was, came to hear Christ, but only many of them, or some of every sort. Thus publicans and harlots entered into the kingdom of God,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:3-7

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, showeth us the principal thing which our Saviour by this parable designs to teach His hearers, and us also, viz. That Christ is so far from rejecting the greatest sinners, that repent, and flee unto his mercy, that, if it were possible, he should take a greater satisfaction in such an issue of Divine providence,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 15:1-10

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 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 the religiously minded held aloof because of their gross and sensual life. The parables imply that they came to Jesus because they were penitent—a fact which should have led the Pharisees to rejoicing rather than to murmuring.Luke 15:2. Murmured.—I.e., among themselves. Receiveth sinners, etc.—An... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-10

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:2

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:3

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:1-2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:3-7

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 15:1-10

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