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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jesus Christ
Dictionary: Jesus
In Luke 15 Jesus welcomed sinful people, and many listened to him. However, the Pharisees criticized Jesus for welcoming people like that. Then Jesus told the three parables in this chapter. Each parable tells about something that was lost and the joy of the one who found it. The things that were lost represent sinful people. They need help to be restored to God. The parables illustrate that God feels great joy when even one sinful person repents and is restored to a good relationship with him. In the Notes each parable will be described in a separate section.
The parable in this section is about a sheep that went away from its shepherd. The sheep did not know how to find the shepherd again. When the shepherd noticed that this one sheep was missing, he searched for it diligently until he found it. He then invited his friends and neighbors to rejoice with him that he had found the lost sheep. Another heading for this section is:
The Lost Sheep (GW)
A shepherd was happy to find his lost sheep
There is a parallel passage for this section in Matthew 18:12–14. However, the context and some of the details are different.
Then Jesus told them this parable:
¶ So/Then Jesus told this parable/story/illustration to them. He said:
Then: The Greek conjunction that the BSB translates as Then introduces what Jesus said when the religious leaders criticized him. Many English versions translate it as “So.” Some versions do not use a conjunction here. Connect this paragraph to the preceding one in a natural way in your language.
parable: The Greek word that the BSB translates as parable is a general word that describes different types of wise speech. This includes symbolic stories, metaphors, proverbs, illustrations, and wise sayings. Here Jesus used the word to refer to a story or illustration that answered the complaints of the Jewish leaders.
Some other ways to translate parable in this context are:
illustration (GW)
story (NLT)
The word parable first occurs in Luke at 5:36a.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
δὲ
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: εἶπεν Δέ πρός αὐτούς τήν παραβολήν ταύτην λέγων)
Luke uses the word And to indicate the results of what the previous sentence described. Alternate translation: [Then]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parables
εἶπεν & πρὸς αὐτοὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην
˱he˲_said & (Some words not found in SR-GNT: εἶπεν Δέ πρός αὐτούς τήν παραβολήν ταύτην λέγων)
Alternate translation: [Jesus told this story to the Pharisees and scribes to help them understand]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.
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