This parable is one of six known as prayer parables: The Lost Sheep, The Lost Coin, The Lost Son, The Pharisee and Tax Collector, The Friend at Midnight, and the Persistent Widow. When the parables ...

Apr. 6—Jesus told the Parable of the Lost Sheep in Matthew 18:12-14 and Luke 15:1-7 to show that every person is of singular importance to God and should be seen as having great value no matter what ...

The background for this parable is that tax collectors and sinners came to hear the Lord Jesus by multitudes. The scribes and Pharisees criticized him because of this. Jesus responded to their ...

The key theme of this Sunday’s Gospel is the recovery of the repentant sinner. The Gospel itself comes in two versions: a short and a long form. The short form includes only the first two parables in ...

This is English artist John Atkinson Grimshaw’s depiction of a shepherd looking for his lost sheep. Grimshaw lived from 1836-93. (Courtesy Photo) Jesus told the Parable of the Lost Sheep in Matthew 18 ...