The Grace Commentary – Your free verse-by-verse Bible commentary Luke 15

Luke 15:1

Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him.

(ए) Tax collectors and sinners. Tax collectors were revenue collectors for the hated Roman occupiers, while sinners were the irreligious and those considered unrighteous (Matt. 9:13). The word “sinner” in the Gospels, typically refers to someone who does not keep the law (John 7:49).

(बी) Coming near. Grace attracts sinners. Those who had been judged as outcasts and pariahs were received by Jesus and they loved him for it.

Luke 15:2

Both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

(ए) Pharisees; देखना प्रवेश for Matt. 3:7.

(बी) Scribes; देखना प्रवेश for Matt. 5:20.

(सी) Grumble. Like the Israelites who murmured against Moses (e.g., Ex. 15:24), the Pharisees and scribes complained about Jesus. By receiving sinners, they said, he was giving approval to their sinful conduct. This was unacceptable. Jesus was out of line. Sinners are to be shunned, written off, and avoided. Those who are “righteous” ought to have nothing to do with them.

(डी) Receives. The original word (prosdechomai) is a strengthened form of the word for receive (dechomai). Jesus welcomed and accepted sinners.

(इ) Eats with them. To eat with sinners was the greatest scandal of all. To share a table with the unclean was defile oneself, or so thought the religious leaders. They did not understand that Jesus came to seek and save those who are lost (Luke 19:10). To help them understand, Jesus told them stories about three lost things; a lost sheep, a lost coin, and a lost son.

Luke 15:3

So He told them this parable, saying,

(ए) Them. The Pharisees and scribes (see previous verse). Although Jesus is in the company of tax collectors and sinners, it’s the grumbling men to whom these stories are directed.

(बी) Parable. A parable is an earthly picture that conceals a spiritual reality. The parable of the Lost Sheep teaches us that tax collectors and sinners are so precious to God that he searches for them like a shepherd searching for a lost sheep. Jesus also told this parable to his disciples on another occasion (Matt. 18:12–14).

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Luke 15:4

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

(ए) What man among you. As is his habit, Jesus engages his listeners with a direct question. The question is ironic because the Pharisees and scribes were not shepherds and may have looked down on shepherding as an uncouth trade. But in a spiritual sense, they were shepherds of Israel, and negligent shepherds at that (Jer. 23:1–2, Eze. 34:2–4).

(बी) A hundred sheep is a substantial flock. To lose one sheep might be considered an acceptable loss, but not to this shepherd. He values every one.

In the Old Testament, God is portrayed as a shepherd (Ps. 23:1, Is. 40:11) who searches for his lost and scattered sheep (Eze. 34:11–12). In the New Testament, Jesus is revealed as the Good Shepherd who calls his sheep and lays down his life for them (John 10:3, 11). He is the promised Messiah sent to find the lost sheep of Israel (Matt. 10:6, 15:24).

(c) Lost. The sheep is lost because it belongs to the shepherd. In the same way, all who are lost belong to the Father. He made them. He ransomed them. He does not want any to perish but desires all to be saved (1 Tim. 2:4, 1 Pet. 3:9).

In context, Jesus is speaking of those who have gathered around him. The religious leaders called them sinners, but Jesus said they were lost and he had come to save them (Luke 19:10).

(डी) The ninety-nine sheep are those who see themselves as righteous and not in need of rescue. See प्रवेश for Luke 15:7.

(इ) Go after the one. Manmade religion says you have to find God, but the gospel declares God is looking for you. He searches for you because you are valuable to him. You are the sheep worth rescuing and the pearl of great price.

(f) Finds it. Just as the shepherd searches until he finds the lost sheep, God will never give up on you. He will never say, “That one is beyond my reach.” If you have loved ones who seem far from God, take comfort that the Good Shepherd is even now searching and reaching for them.

Luke 15:5

“When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

Rejoicing. The Good Shepherd does not beat or scold the lost sinner, but he gathers them in his arms rejoicing that they are found.

Luke 15:6

“And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

Rejoice with me. These words are directed to the grumbling Pharisees and scribes who are disgusted that Jesus is dining with sinners (Luke 15:1–2). “Stop standing back like some kind of contemptuous elder brother and come join the party.” The three parables of lost things (a sheep, a coin, and a son) all end with rejoicing.

Luke 15:7

“I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

(ए) Joy in heaven means God is rejoicing, and why wouldn’t he when a lost child is found and a sinner is saved?

Religion in general, and religious buildings in particular, can give the impression that heaven is a quiet place of sober reflection where introspective people contemplate their sins. But the heaven Jesus described is a happy place of joy and celebration.

(बी) Sinner. The word “sinners” ought to be in quotation marks since it was the religious leaders who called them sinners (Luke 15:2). Jesus said they were lost sheep and he had come to save them (Matt. 10:6, 15:24, 18:11).

(सी) Repents. To repent means to change your mind.

In describing repentance in terms of a rescued sheep, Jesus befuddles religious notions of what it means to get right with God. To the religious, repentance implies conformance to the rules. It’s shunning sin and sinners and dutifully serving the Lord. Repentance, in a word, is work. But in the parable of the Lost Sheep, it’s the shepherd who does all the work and the sheep simply receives the benefit.

To repent in a new covenant sense is to change your mind about the goodness of God. You may have imagined God to be far away and uncaring, but the parable reveals he loves you and has come to rescue you. You may have thought yourself to be worthless and beyond salvation, but the gospel reveals you are highly valued, dearly-loved, and worth dying for.

देखना प्रवेश for Repentance.

(डी) Ninety-nine righteous persons. The so-called “righteous” people are those who do not see themselves as sinners in saving (Matt. 9:13). They are the Pharisees and scribes who are confident of their own righteousness and who cannot fathom why someone claiming to be the Son of God would receive sinners.

Indeed, the ninety-nine are more lost than the one because they do not realize that we are all lost sheep (Is. 53:6).

Luke 15:8

“Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

(ए) Woman. Jesus, the champion of equality, follows a story about a man searching for sheep with another story about a woman searching for a coin. If Jesus is the shepherd in the first parable, he is the woman in the second, metaphorically speaking.

Putting a woman center stage would’ve been shocking to those religious types who daily thanked God that they were not born a Gentile or a woman. But it would not have been strange to those who had been raised on the stories of Esther, Miriam and Ruth.

(बी) Coin or drachma. A Greek drachma was roughly equal to a Roman denarius and was equivalent to a day’s wage for a laborer (Matt. 20:2).

(सी) Lamp and sweep. The woman goes to some trouble to find that which she had lost. In the same way, the Lord is intentional in searching for the lost. He illuminates the darkness with the light of the gospel and he sweeps away our transgressions so that we might be found.

Luke 15:9

“When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’

(ए) Rejoice with me; देखना प्रवेश for Luke 15:6.

(बी) I had lost. The woman takes responsibility for the lost coin. In the same way, Jesus takes responsibility for our lostness. He does not say, “They brought it on themselves.” But he who knew no sin became sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him (2 Cor. 5:21).

(सी) Lost. The coin is lost because it belongs to the woman. In the same way, all who are lost belong to the Father. He made them. He ransomed them. He does not want any to perish but desires all to be saved (1 Tim. 2:4, 1 Pet. 3:9).

In context, Jesus is speaking of those who have gathered around him. The religious leaders called them sinners, but Jesus said they were lost and he had come to save them (Luke 19:10).

Luke 15:10

“In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

(ए) Joy… of God means God is rejoicing, and why wouldn’t he rejoice when a lost child is found and a sinner is saved?

(बी) Sinner; देखना प्रवेश for Luke 15:7.

(सी) Repents; देखना प्रवेश for Luke 15:7.

Luke 15:20

“So he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

Ran and embraced him. God is like a father watching for your return, who runs when he sees you coming, and who falls on you with hugs and kisses. As a dearly-loved child, you can rest in your Father’s love knowing you have nothing to prove.

Luke 15:28

“But he became angry and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him.

He became angry. The self-righteous man is hostile towards grace. Indeed, he detests grace for it undermines everything he has worked for. When he hear the happy sounds of the party, his prideful anger is aroused. See प्रवेश for Self-righteousness.

ग्रेस कमेंटरी नियमित रूप से जोड़ी जाने वाली नई सामग्री के साथ प्रगति पर है। नीचे सामयिक अपडेट के लिए साइन अप करें। कोई सुझाव मिला? कृपया इसका उपयोग करेंप्रतिपुष्टिपृष्ठ। इस पृष्ठ पर टाइपो या टूटे हुए लिंक की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए, कृपया नीचे दिए गए टिप्पणी फ़ॉर्म का उपयोग करें।

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