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
Luke 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well a
The Latin text of Luke 14:30–19:7 in Codex Gigas (13th century)
In this parable, a woman sweeps her dark house looking for a lost coin (engraving by John Everett Millais).
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni