In this parable, one of the 100 sheep lost its way and fallen down a hill. The shepherd left the 99 sheep in the open country and went after the lost sheep until he found it. Then the shepherd ...

The shepherd in the parable has to assume that the 99 sedentary sheep will be able to take care of themselves while he leaves them alone – "in open country," as Luke writes it. So compassionate ...

However, Francis observed that “a paradox” in the parable that could cause one to doubt the Shepherd’s actions is found with the question: “Is it wise to abandon the 99 for only one sheep?

The long interpretation of the parable is certainly an addition to ... like the story of the shepherd who leaves 99 sheep to search for a single lost sheep. No earthly shepherd would do that ...

However, Francis observed that "a paradox" in the parable that could cause one to doubt the shepherd's actions is found with the question "is it wise to abandon the 99 for only one sheep?

The story is a parable that Jesus told ... Then ask the children to freeze frame being the shepherd, one of the 99 sheep, or the lost sheep, at the following points of the story: When the shepherd ...

Jesus tells the parable of the lost sheep to show that the Kingdom of God ... The shepherd leaves the 99 others and searches high and low for the lost sheep. Jesus stresses that when the shepherd ...

Charlotte McDonald said the committee’s name reflected a parable in the Bible where a shepherd leaves a herd of 99 sheep to find one that had been lost. “The students are lost to their ...