Matthew 18:10–14

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The Parable of the Lost Sheep

^18:10“See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.¹⁴^18:12What do you think? If someone¹⁵ owns a hundred¹⁶ sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?¹⁷^18:13And if he finds it, I tell you the truth,¹⁸ he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. ^18:14In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

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14 The most important (א B L* Θ* f1, 13 33 892* e ff1 sys sa) do not include 18:11 “For the Son of Man came to save the lost.” The verse is included in D Lmg W Θc 078vid 𝔐 lat syc,p,h, but is almost certainly not original, being borrowed, as it were, from the parallel in Luke 19:10. The present translation follows in omitting the verse number as well, a procedure also followed by a number of other modern translations.
15 Grk “a certain man.” The Greek word ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) is used here in a somewhat generic sense.
16 This individual with a hundred sheep is a shepherd of modest means, as flocks often had up to two hundred head of sheep.
17 Look for the one that went astray. The parable pictures God’s pursuit of the sinner. On the image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, see John 10:1–18.
18 Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amēn), I say to you.”

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“See to it that you don’t despise one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of my Father in heaven. What do you think? If someone has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go and search for the stray? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over that sheep more than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.