On his shoulders (επ τους ωμους αυτου). He does it himself in exuberant affection and of necessity as the poor lost sheep is helpl…

And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders.—Here again we have a threefold series of parallel applications: th…

Saying, What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after tha…

St. Ambrose of Milan: You had learned from what came before not to be preoccupied with the business of this world or to pref…

For the phrase “suppose one of you,” see comment on 14:5. The situation Jesus describes was a common one. One hundred sheep was a normal-sized floc…

And when he has found it
In a sad plight and condition: so Christ finds his sheep in a most desolate one, in a pit, …

The parable of the lost sheep is very applicable to the great work of man's redemption. The lost sheep represents the sinner as having departed fro…