Luke 15:1-5 ▼

1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews] were coming near Jesus to listen to Him.

2 Both the Pharisees and the scribes began muttering and complaining, saying, “This man accepts and welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

3 So He told them this parable:

4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost, [searching] until he finds it?

5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.