Luke 19:10
8 And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- KJV
- For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
- WEB
- For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
- ASV
- For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.
- DARBY
- for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.
- BLB
- For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- ÅB
- for Menneskesønnen er kommet for å søke og frelse det som var fortapt.
- OTB
- For Menneskesønnen er kommet for å søke og frelse det som var fortapt.”
- B1930
- for Menneskesønnen er kommet for å søke og frelse det som var fortapt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 34:16
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Read in contextMatthew 1:21
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Read in context1 Timothy 1:13–16
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
Read in contextLuke 5:31–32
And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Read in contextLuke 15:4–7
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Read in contextMatthew 9:12–13
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Read in contextRomans 5:6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Read in contextMatthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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