1. Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
2. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
3. So he told them this parable:
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?