Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Matthew 18:12-13
How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, etc.—This is another of those pregnant sayings which our Lord uttered more than once. See on the delightful parable of the lost sheep in Luke 15:4-7. Only the object there is to show what the good Shepherd will do, when even one of His sheep is lost, to find it; here the object is to show, when found, how reluctant He is to lose it. Accordingly, it is added,
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