1. Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.
2. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This one accepts sinners and eats with them."
3. And he told this parable to them, saying:
4. "What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it?
5. And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.