What do you think? If a man 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.

What do you think? If a man 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.

If you read through the book of Mathew in the ESV translation of the Bible you may notice something odd: there's no Matthew 18:11.

American Standard Version For the Son of man came to save that which was lost. Douay-Rheims Bible For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

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18At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2 And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of ...

Matthew 18:10–14 describes the great value God the Father places on everyone who believes in Jesus. This is often referred to as the Parable of the Lost Sheep.

The verse is missing from some of the Bibles because the passage does not actually appear in the best early Greek manuscripts which contain Matthew.

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven ...

Mat 18:1 - At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”