The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. It is about a man who leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep in order to find the one which
Parable of the Lost Sheep (right) in St Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland
Depiction of the Good Shepherd by Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne showing the influence of this parable.
James Tissot – The Good Shepherd (Le bon pasteur) – Brooklyn Museum
Chapter 18 of the Gospel of Matthew contains the fourth of the five Discourses of Matthew, also called the Discourse on the Church or the ecclesiastical discourse. It compares "the greatest in the Kin
Christ with children, by Carl Heinrich Bloch
Matthew 18:32–34; 19:1–3,5–7,9–10 on the recto side of Papyrus 25 from 4th century