Jesus is here seeking to justify to these scribes and Pharisees the reason why He would associate with tax collectors and unworthy sinners of the worst sort. It was so that they might be found by Him and saved by Him. This is why He was receiving them to have an audience with Himself. This parable is set in the context of the words of verses 1 and 2. They say – "Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him." "And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, 'This Man receives sinners and eats with them." This was the reason that Jesus spoke this parable to them. It was because they were complaining about His associating with sinners. But He Himself was seeing them as lost sheep. That was the reason that He told them this parable.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
