Luke 15:3-7 Exegesis (Not Sermon)

Initial thoughts

our view = Angry God & Bad People

God’s view = Joy over his children

Cultural Nuances & Refs

🐑 Cultural of shepherding from very beginning (ex. Shepherds: Moses & at Jesus’s birth)

🐑 Jn 10:1-18 …sheep know shepherd’s voice...

🐑 Eze 34:1-31 …Son of man, prophecy against the shepherds of Israel… you do not feed the sheep...

🐑 Je 50:6 My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray

Je 23:1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy & scatter the sheep of my pasture!

🐑 Is 52:6 All we like sheep have gone astray...

🐑 1 Pe 2:25 you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd

🐑 Mt 10:6 …go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel...

🐑 Mt 9:36 ...he saw the crowds, he had compassion… like sheep without a shepherd

🐑 Jn 10:16 I have other sheep that are not of the fold… I must bring them also…

🐑 Ps 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep...

Flow of Text

Jesus eating with sinners

3x - Lost, calls friends/neighbors, celebration

Parable of Lost Son - eating banquet with returned son/sinner

Lk 15:1-2 | sinners draw near to Jesus & religious grumble

Lk 14:12 …when you give banquet invite those who cannot repay you...

Lk 15:3 | so he told them this parable

/ / Parallel passages: Mt 18:10-14

Lk 15:4 | …if 1 of 100 sheep is lost you look until it’s found...

OT Is 40:11 ...He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms...

OT Eze 34:11 …I myself [YHWH] will search for my sheep & will seek them out...

Eze 34:16 ... I will seek the lost… bring back the strayed… bind up the injured… strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

Mt 12:11 …if your sheep falls into a it on the Sabbath...

Jn 10:11 I am the good shepherd...

Lk 15:5 | ...when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...

Lk 15:6 | …calls friends & neighbors… “Rejoice with me...”

Lk 15:7 | ...more joy in heaven over 1 sinner who repents than over 99 righteous...

ΑΩ Eze 18:23 (& Eze 33:11) Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked…& not rather that he should turn from his way & live?