The Parable of The Lost Sheep

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This paper touches upon all of the history behind The Parable of the Lost Sheep. It examines the parable with its roots in the Bible in Matthew 18:10-14, and Luke 15:3-7 and how it has developed over the centuries. Analyzing the relationship between Mathew and Luke and how each of them used the parable in slightly different ways.

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"We encounter The Parable of the Lost Sheep in two gospels, Matthew 18:10-14, and Luke 15:3-7. Both gospels hold a very similar account of the story, a story mainly of joy. A shepherd is out and about with his one hundred sheep, and one goes astray. He leaves the ninety-nine and goes in search for the one that is lost. Stephen L. Harris describes it as such: "The parable of the lost sheep recounts a shepherd's delight in finding a stray animal. In Luke's version, the focus is on the celebration that follows the shepherd's find: "friends and neighbors" are called to rejoice with him" (199)."

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