Luke 15:6 (DBY)

Passage

and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

Nearby Context

Luke 15:4 What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

Luke 15:5 and having found it, he lays it upon his own shoulders, rejoicing;

Luke 15:6 and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, [more] than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

Luke 15:8 Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sheep", "come", "house", "calls", "together", "friends", "neighbours", and "saying". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sheep" and "come", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "and having found it he lays it..." into verse 7's "I say unto you that thus there...", so "sheep" and "come" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sheep" and "come" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.