[15:1] Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
[15:2] And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
[15:3] So he told them this parable:
[15:4] “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
[15:5] And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
[15:6] And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’
[15:7] Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.