Luke 15:6 ESV

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 15:6

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 in long line his sheep follow him. Christ’s own words are the best comment on His own parable: ‘I am the Good Shepherd, and I know My sheep,’ etc. The early Christians chose this image as the symbol of their Lord. They carved Christ upon their gems, they painted Him in their catacombs, they gave Him... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 15:6-9

LOST AND FOUND‘Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep … [and] the piece which I had lost.’ Luke 15:6-1 Samuel : We have here two beautiful pictures. Though the lesson to be learned from each is the same— God’s love in seeking for lost souls—yet there is a difference between them in regard to the thing lost. The one shows the folly of sin. How foolish of the sheep to leave the good pasturage, and the shepherd’s care, for the barren wastes of the desert ( Proverbs 5:23)! The other... read more

Peter Pett

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 15:6

“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 friends and neighbours, announcing that he has found his lost sheep. Such a celebration might at first seem a little excessive, but we must remember that the shepherd would know the sheep by name and would not just be thinking commercially. He had found a beloved sheep. Then these ‘sinners’ (unlike... 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 15:3-7

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

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 15:3-7

DISCOURSE: 1542THE LOST SHEEPLuke 15:3-7. 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, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 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. I say unto you, that... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Luke 15:4-7

The Parable of the Lost Sheep September 28th, 1884 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "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, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 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. I say unto you, that... read more

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 15:6

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 15:6-9

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 15:6

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

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

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

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 15:3-7

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Luke 15:4-7

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