Luke 15:9

9 And when she finds it you can be sure she'll call her friends and neighbors: 'Celebrate with me! I found my lost coin!'

Luke 15:9 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 15:9

And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends
(See Gill on Luke 15:6) a parable somewhat like to this, the Jews ^F24 have on those words in ( Proverbs 2:4 ) "If thou seekest her as silver", &c.

``it is like to a man that has lost a "shekel", (a piece of money,) or beryl rings, within his house; he lights up many lamps and many candles, until he lights on them; and lo, these things much more: for if a man for the things of the temporary life of this world, lights many lamps and candles, until he lights upon them and finds them; the words of the law, since they are the life of this world, and the life of the world to come, shouldest thou not search after them as for hidden treasure?''

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 1. 4.

Luke 15:9 In-Context

7 Count on it - there's more joy in heaven over one sinner's rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in no need of rescue.

8 "Or imagine a woman who has ten coins and loses one. Won't she light a lamp and scour the house, looking in every nook and cranny until she finds it?

9 And when she finds it you can be sure she'll call her friends and neighbors: 'Celebrate with me! I found my lost coin!'

10 Count on it - that's the kind of party God's angels throw every time one lost soul turns to God."

11 Then he said, "There was once a man who had two sons.