1. All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to Him.
2. And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them! ”
3. So He told them this parable:
4. “What man among you, who has 100 sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?
5. When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,