8. Or what woman having ten groats; if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it?
9. And when she hath found it, call together her friends and neighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat which I had lost.
10. So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance.
11. And he said: A certain man had two sons:
12. And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance.
13. And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.
14. And after he had spent all, there came a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.
15. And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.
16. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him.
17. And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger?
18. I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee:
19. I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
20. And rising up he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and running to him fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
21. And the son said to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, I am not now worthy to be called thy son.
22. And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and make merry: