Teks -- Matthew 18:13 (NET)

18:13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

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Vincent: Mat 18:13 - If so be

If so be ( ἐὰν γένηται )

If it should so come to pass. God's grace is not irresistible.

JFB: Mat 18:12-13 - How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, &c.

This is another of those pregnant sayings which our Lord uttered more than once. See on the delightful parable of the lost sheep in Luk 15:4-7. Only the object there is to show what the good Shepherd will do, when even one of His sheep is lost, to find it; here the object is to show, when found, how reluctant He is to lose it. Accordingly, it is added,

Clarke: Mat 18:13 - He rejoiceth more

He rejoiceth more - It is justly observed by one, on this verse, that it is natural for a person to express unusual joy at the fortunate accomplishment of an unexpected event.

TSK: Mat 18:13 - he rejoiceth

he rejoiceth : Psa 147:11; Isa 53:11, Isa 62:5; Jer 32:37-41; Mic 7:18; Zep 3:17; Luk 15:5-10,Luk 15:23, Luk 15:24; Joh 4:34-36; Jam 2:13

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Poole: Mat 18:12-14

Ver. 12-14. We shall meet with the parable or similitude more fully, Luk 15:4 . To what purpose it is brought here our Lord hath told us, Mat 18:14 , to show us, that it is not the will of our heavenly Father that the least and meanest believer should perish. And every scandal, or offence, (as I before showed), hath a tendency to destroy that soul before whom it is laid, or to which it is given. Take heed, saith our Saviour, of giving scandals and offences to others, yea, though you should have observed them in something slipping and going astray. Will you be more uncharitable to men than you are to the beasts which you keep? You do not thus with a sheep; though it be gone astray you do not despise and neglect it, much less take courses to drive it further. No, you rather leave the rest, as being safe, and go, though it be into the mountains, to recover the sheep that is lost; and if you find it, have a greater passion of joy for that one sheep so recovered than for all the other. If you see some error in any of my sheep, if they do wander, should it not be your care rather to restore such in the spirit of meekness, as Gal 6:1 , than to lay further stumbling blocks before them, and give them occasion of further stumbling and falling? My Father hath done so for lost man: my coming to seek and to save that which is lost, is an evidence to you that it is not his will that one of my little ones should be lost.

Gill: Mat 18:13 - And if so be that he find it // verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep // than of the ninety and nine which went not astray

And if so be that he find it,.... Which is a casual and uncertain thing with the shepherd, but not so with Christ, who certainly finds all those he goes after, and seeks: for,

verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep; at the finding of it, whose loss greatly affected him,

than of the ninety and nine which went not astray; who seemed not to go astray, were outwardly righteous before men, and, in their own opinion, being the same with the ninety and nine just persons who needed no repentance in their own apprehension, Luk 15:7. This same parable is related in Luk 15:3, and it being there more largely expressed, and along with other parables of the same kind, I shall refer the more particular consideration of it to that place; only observe, that it seems to me that this parable was twice delivered by our Lord, and that on two different occasions; once, as here, in his discourse on offences, and upon mention of his coming into this world to save lost sinners; at another time, as there, upon the Pharisees murmuring at his receiving sinners, and eating with them.