7I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
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I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Here is, I. The diligent attendance of the publicans and sinners upon Christ’s ministry. Great multitudes of Jews went with him (Luke 14:25), with such an assurance of admission into the kingdom of God that he found it requisite to say that to them which would shake their vain hopes. Here multitudes of publicans and sinners drew near to him, with a humble modest fear of being rejected by him, and…
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