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Luke 15 — one of 100, one of 10, then one of two

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LITERARY_OBSERVATIONLIT_LUK_15_NUMERIC_PROGRESSION
Statement layerScripture says
ConfidenceStrong Interpretive Case
Literary classificationStrongly Supported
Curation stateCurated Human Reviewed

The successive loss scenarios move from one sheep among one hundred, to one coin among ten, to a household explicitly introduced as a father with two sons. The numerical concentration is observable; treating it as deliberate rhetorical intensification is an interpretive judgment.

Supporting evidence

Kind: scripture_passage

Id: PASSAGE_LUK_15_1_32

Counterevidence / challenges

Note: The text never explicitly labels the ratios as a designed numerical progression; rhetorical significance is inferred from arrangement.

What this does not establish

It does not prove a mathematical code, hidden numerology, or authorial symbolism beyond the narrated quantities.
Release Introduced
v52
Passage Id
PASSAGE_LUK_15_1_32
Occurrences
[
    {
        "reference": "Luke 15:4",
        "ratio": "1/100"
    },
    {
        "reference": "Luke 15:8",
        "ratio": "1/10"
    },
    {
        "reference": "Luke 15:11",
        "ratio": "1/2 household sons"
    }
]
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC