Luke 15:1-5 ▼

1 And all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to Him, to hear Him,

2 and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying, “This One receives sinners, and eats with them.”

3 And He spoke to them this allegory, saying,

4 “What man of you having one hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, until he may find it?

5 And having found, he lays [it] on his shoulders rejoicing,