In this parable of the lost coin, Jesus describes a coin that has gone missing. The woman who owns the coin, worth about a day's wages, has nine more.

The discovery of the lost coin represents how one sinner repents of his sinful life and is brought back into relational harmony with God.

—The symbolic meaning of each act lies almost on the surface. To “light the candle” can be nothing else than to put forth the full power of truth and holiness.

All believers were once lost sinners in need of salvation. · Everyone of the yet to believe elect is precious to God · Repentance is a key element of salvation ...

These are parables of lost things and they grew out of an incident when the Lord was surrounded by a crowd made up of loan sharks, hippies, and radicals.

19 июн. 2014 г. · Verses 1-3 tell us that this parable is a part of Jesus' response to the complaints of the scribes and Pharisees about His interaction with tax ...

The soul is silver, of intrinsic worth and value; not base metal, as iron or lead, but silver. It is a silver coin.

Jesus taught that God actively seeks out the lost. He does not grudgingly receive the lost; instead, He searches after them.

A "drachma" was the fourth part of a shekel, and of the same value with a Roman penny; and was worth of our money, seven pence half penny.

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