Tag: Parable of the Lost Sheep

[Previous] Kenneth E. Bailey shows that the parable is a combination of straight parallelism with an inverted parallelism in the middle. 1. YOU  4 "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep 2. ONE  and losing one of them, 3. NINETY-NINE  does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness A. LOST  and go after the…

[Previous] We have just explored the "Parable of the Compassionate Father" in Luke 15:11-32. It is time to back up and review what led to this parable. 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow…