Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
leave the ninety and nine—bend all His attention and care, as it were, to the one object of recovering the lost sheep; not saying. "It is but one; let it go; enough remain."
go after . . . until, etc.—pointing to all the diversified means which God sets in operation for recovering sinners.
I. THE LOST SHEEP. (Luke 15:3-7)
Occurring again (Matthew 18:12-14); but there to show how precious one of His sheep is to the Good Shepherd; here, to show that the shepherd, though the sheep stray never so widely, will seek it out, and when he hath found, will rejoice over it.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 15:4:
Psalms 119:176
Ezekiel 34:4
Matthew 18:12-13
Luke 15:3-7
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