“Which person among you,
having a hundred sheep and losing one out of them . . .”
Let
me put his words in a 21st century American context:
“Which person among you, having a million dollars . . .”
Most
of people reading either Yeshua’s words or mine would have answered: “Not I.” People back then and today would
be impressed by two things – being asked
if they are that wealthy and thinking they would lose part of it.
In
Yeshua’s world, a peasant might own five sheep, so noticing that only four were
grazing on a hillside would be easy. However, one sheep missing from a flock of
a hundred sheep would be easy to overlook. But this owner did notice it and
immediately took whatever steps were needed to make the flock whole again.
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