Matthew 18:12

Good News Translation

“What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:17

Then the Lord said to Elijah, the prophet from Tishbe,

Psalm 119:176

I wander about like a lost sheep; so come and look for me, your servant, because I have not neglected your laws.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the Lord made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved.

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people are like sheep whose shepherds have let them get lost in the mountains. They have wandered like sheep from one mountain to another, and they have forgotten where their home is.

Ezekiel 34:12

in the same way as shepherds take care of their sheep that were scattered and are brought together again. I will bring them back from all the places where they were scattered on that dark, disastrous day.

Ezekiel 34:16

“I will look for those that are lost, bring back those that wander off, bandage those that are hurt, and heal those that are sick; but those that are fat and strong I will destroy, because I am a shepherd who does what is right.

Ezekiel 34:28

The heathen nations will not plunder them any more, and the wild animals will not kill and eat them. They will live in safety, and no one will terrify them.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not taken care of the weak ones, healed the ones that are sick, bandaged the ones that are hurt, brought back the ones that wandered off, or looked for the ones that were lost. Instead, you treated them cruelly.

Ezekiel 34:6

So my sheep wandered over the high hills and the mountains. They were scattered over the face of the earth, and no one looked for them or tried to find them.

Matthew 12:11

Jesus answered, “What if one of you has a sheep and it falls into a deep hole on the Sabbath? Will you not take hold of it and lift it out?

Matthew 18:13

When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

Matthew 21:28

“Now, what do you think? There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the older one and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

Matthew 22:42

“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?” “He is David's descendant,” they answered.

1 Corinthians 10:15

I speak to you as sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

1 Peter 2:25

You were like sheep that had lost their way, but now you have been brought back to follow the Shepherd and Keeper of your souls.