Matthew 18:12

Young's Literal Translation 1898

‘What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not — having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains — seek that which is gone astray?

Cross References

1 Kings 21:17

And the word of Jehovah is unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

Psalm 119:176

I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

Isaiah 53:6

All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

Jeremiah 50:6

A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, [To] the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness.

Ezekiel 34:16

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

Ezekiel 34:28

And they are no more a prey to nations, And the beast of the earth devoureth them not, And they have dwelt confidently, And there is none troubling.

Ezekiel 34:4

The weak ye have not strengthened, And the sick one ye have not healed, And the broken ye have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost ye have not sought, And with might ye have ruled them and with rigour.

Ezekiel 34:6

Go astray do My flock on all the mountains, And on every high hill, And on all the face of the land have My flock been scattered, And there is none inquiring, and none seeking.

Matthew 12:11

And he said to them, ‘What man shall be of you, who shall have one sheep, and if this may fall on the sabbaths into a ditch, will not lay hold on it and raise [it]?

Matthew 18:13

and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;

Matthew 21:28

‘And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.’

Matthew 22:42

saying, ‘What do ye think concerning the Christ? of whom is he son?’ They say to him, ‘Of David.’

1 Corinthians 10:15

as to wise men I speak — judge ye what I say:

1 Peter 2:25

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.