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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Matthew 18:12 Catholic Bible: "What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/matthew/18-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/matthew/18-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/matthew/18-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/matthew/1.htm">Matthew</a> > <a href="/gntd/matthew/18.htm">Chapter 18</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/18-11.htm" title="Matthew 18:11">◄</a> Matthew 18:12 <a href="../matthew/18-13.htm" title="Matthew 18:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/matthew/18.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/matthew/18.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/matthew/18.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/matthew/18.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Let me ask you this. What would you do if you had 100 sheep and one of them wandered off? Wouldn't you leave the 99 on the hillside and go look for the one that had wandered away? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/matthew/18.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/matthew/18.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray?</p><p class="hdg">How.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/21-28.htm">Matthew 21:28</a> But what think you? A certain man had two sons: and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/22-42.htm">Matthew 22:42</a> Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him: David's.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/10-15.htm">1 Corinthians 10:15</a> I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.</p><p class="hdg">if.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/12-11.htm">Matthew 12:11</a> But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that hath one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not take hold on it and lift it up?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-176.htm">Psalm 119:176</a> I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/53-6.htm">Isaiah 53:6</a> All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/50-6.htm">Jeremiah 50:6</a> My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds have caused them to go astray, and have made them wander in the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/34-16.htm">Ezekiel 34:16,28</a> I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away, I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I will strengthen that which was weak, and that which was fat and strong I will preserve, and I will feed them in judgment. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/15-4.htm">Luke 15:4</a> What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after that which was lost, until he find it?</p><p class="hdg2">*etc:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/10-11.htm">John 10:11</a> I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.</p><p class="hdg2">*etc:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-25.htm">1 Peter 2:25</a> For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.</p><p class="hdg">into.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/21-17.htm">1 Kings 21:17</a> And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/34-6.htm">Ezekiel 34:6,12</a> My sheep have wandered in every mountain, and in every high hill: and my flocks were scattered upon the face of the earth, and there was none that sought them, there was none, I say, that sought them. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/matthew/18.htm">The Parable of the Lost Sheep</a></span><br>… <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray?</span> <span class="reftext">13</span>And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/119-176.htm">Psalm 119:176</a></span><br />I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/34-4.htm">Ezekiel 34:4</a></span><br />The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/18-13.htm">Matthew 18:13</a></span><br />And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/15-4.htm">Luke 15:4</a></span><br />What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after that which was lost, until he find it?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/micah/3-5.htm">Astray</a> <a href="/matthew/16-26.htm">Gets</a> <a href="/matthew/17-15.htm">Goes</a> <a href="/haggai/1-11.htm">Hills</a> <a href="/matthew/13-23.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/matthew/15-14.htm">Leave</a> <a href="/malachi/1-3.htm">Mountains</a> <a href="/daniel/3-1.htm">Nine</a> <a href="/daniel/12-11.htm">Ninety</a> <a href="/genesis/17-24.htm">Ninety-Nine</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-21.htm">Owns</a> <a href="/matthew/13-45.htm">Search</a> <a href="/matthew/16-4.htm">Seek</a> <a href="/matthew/16-4.htm">Seeketh</a> <a href="/matthew/15-24.htm">Sheep</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-9.htm">Straying</a> <a href="/hosea/11-12.htm">Strays</a> <a href="/matthew/10-34.htm">Suppose</a> <a href="/matthew/17-25.htm">Think</a> <a href="/amos/8-12.htm">Wandered</a> <a href="/songs/1-7.htm">Wanders</a> <a href="/matthew/17-7.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/matthew/18-13.htm">Astray</a> <a href="/matthew/28-14.htm">Gets</a> <a href="/matthew/24-13.htm">Goes</a> <a href="/matthew/24-16.htm">Hills</a> <a href="/matthew/18-28.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/matthew/19-5.htm">Leave</a> <a href="/matthew/24-16.htm">Mountains</a> <a href="/matthew/18-13.htm">Nine</a> <a href="/matthew/18-13.htm">Ninety</a> <a href="/matthew/18-13.htm">Ninety-Nine</a> <a href="/john/10-12.htm">Owns</a> <a href="/luke/2-45.htm">Search</a> <a href="/matthew/28-5.htm">Seek</a> <a href="/luke/11-10.htm">Seeketh</a> <a href="/matthew/18-13.htm">Sheep</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-6.htm">Straying</a> <a href="/james/5-19.htm">Strays</a> <a href="/matthew/20-10.htm">Suppose</a> <a href="/matthew/21-28.htm">Think</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-6.htm">Wandered</a> <a href="/james/5-19.htm">Wanders</a> <a href="/matthew/20-22.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/matthew/18-12.htm">Matthew 18:12 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a and any astray away do does for go gone has he hills hundred If is leave look man mountains ninety-nine not of off on one owns search sheep straying that the them think to wandered wanders What will you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/18-12.htm">NT Gospels: Matthew 18:12 What do you think? 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