Parable 42:
Lost Sheep
Last Revised: 6/23/00
Matthew 18:10-14
Block Diagram:


(1) 18:10  Take care
                     that you do not despise one of the least of these;
                for
(2)        I tell you
                      that their angels in Heaven continually see my Father's face in Heaven.

(3) 18:121 What do you suppose?

                          If a certain man has a hundred sheep
                                  and
                             one of them has gone astray,              
(4)        does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain,
                and
                 having gone
(5)        he seeks the one that went astray?

    18:13       And
                If he finds it
(6)        I tell you
                      that he rejoices 
                                 over it 
                                 more than over the ninety-nine which did not go astray.

    18:14       Thus
(7)        it is not the will of your Heavenly Father
            that one of these little ones should be lost
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1The best and oldest manuscripts omit verse eleven.
 

Semantic Diagram:

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Exegetical Outline:

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