Rejoice with me (συνχαρητε μο). Second aorist passive of συνχαιρω, an old and common verb for mutual joy as in Php 2:17f. Joy dema…

He calleth together his friends and neighbours.—The recurrence of the two words so soon after Luke 14:12 is suggestive. T…

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 comes home
The house, or home, to which Christ comes and brings thither his lost sheep on his shoulders …

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…