Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. 1Ti 1:15Mat 9:10-13Luk 5:29-32Mat 21:28-31Ezk 18:27Rom 5:20Luk 13:30Luk 7:29 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.” Mat 9:11Luk 19:7Luk 7:39Luk 5:30Act 11:3Gal 2:12Luk 7:34Luk 15:29-30
He told them this parable: “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? Ezk 34:16Ezk 34:11-12Mat 18:12-14Luk 19:101Pe 2:25Psa 119:176Ezk 34:31Isa 53:6 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. Heb 12:2Isa 40:10-11Isa 46:3-4Luk 19:9Mic 7:18Eph 2:3-6Ezk 18:23Isa 53:10-11 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!’ Luk 15:10Luk 15:241Pe 2:25Psa 119:176Act 11:23Jhn 15:14Jhn 3:291Pe 2:10 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. Luk 15:10Luk 5:32Luk 15:32Mat 18:13Pro 30:12Luk 18:9-11Php 3:6-7Luk 16:15
“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma 1 coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? Ezk 34:12Luk 19:10Jhn 10:16Jhn 11:52Eph 2:17 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost!’ Luk 15:6-7 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.” Luk 15:7Ezk 33:112Co 7:10Ezk 18:23Luk 13:5Ezk 18:32Mat 18:14Act 11:18
He said, “A certain man had two sons. Mat 21:23-31 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them. Deu 21:16-17Mrk 12:44Luk 15:30Psa 17:14Psa 16:5-6 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. Jer 2:5Pro 21:17Pro 29:3Pro 23:19-22Ecc 11:9-10Luk 15:30Luk 16:1Luk 16:19 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. 2Ch 33:11Ezk 16:27Amo 8:9-12Hos 2:9-14 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. Tit 3:32Ti 2:25-26Isa 1:52Ch 28:22Eph 2:2-3Isa 57:17Jer 31:18-19Jer 5:3 He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. Rom 6:19-21Hos 12:1Isa 44:20Isa 55:2Isa 57:3Jon 2:2-8Lam 4:5Psa 142:4 But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! Ezk 18:28Eph 2:4-5Luk 15:18-19Eph 5:14Act 16:29-30Act 26:11-19Tit 3:4-6Act 2:37 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. Lam 3:401Jn 1:8-10Luk 15:21Jer 50:4-5Luk 18:13Psa 51:3-5Mat 6:14Hos 2:6-7 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’ Job 42:6Psa 84:101Pe 5:6Jas 4:8-10Gen 32:10Jos 9:24-25Luk 5:81Co 15:9
“He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him. Psa 103:10-13Psa 86:5Psa 86:15Eph 2:13Deu 30:2-4Gen 46:29Isa 49:15Gen 33:4 The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ Psa 51:4Luk 15:18-191Co 8:12Jer 3:13Rom 2:4Psa 143:2Ezk 16:63
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. Est 8:2Gen 41:42Isa 61:10Rev 6:11Est 3:10Rev 19:8Rev 7:9Zec 3:3-5 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate; Mat 22:2-14Isa 25:6Psa 63:5Gen 18:7Isa 65:13-14Pro 9:2 for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate. Eph 2:5Ezk 34:16Luk 19:10Col 2:13Luk 15:4Eph 2:1Luk 15:32Rom 6:11
“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. Jer 31:4Psa 150:42Sa 6:14Ecc 3:4Exo 15:20Luk 15:11-12Luk 7:32Psa 126:1 He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on. He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’ Act 22:13Act 9:17Luk 15:30Phm 1:16 But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him. 1Sa 18:8Gen 4:5-7Jon 4:9Luk 15:2Isa 65:5Jon 4:1-4Luk 13:34Luk 7:39 But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. Luk 15:7Luk 18:11-12Mal 3:14Zec 7:31Jn 1:8-101Sa 15:13-14Isa 65:5Luk 17:10 But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’ Luk 15:12-13Pro 29:3Luk 15:32Luk 18:11Exo 32:11Exo 32:7Luk 15:22-23
“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. Mrk 7:27-28Rom 11:1Rom 9:4Mat 20:13-16Luk 19:22-23Rom 11:35 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’” Eph 2:1-10Luk 15:24Isa 35:10Rom 3:4Psa 51:8Jon 4:10-11Rom 15:9-13Hos 14:9