1. Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him for to hear him.
2. And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
3. And he spake unto them this parable, saying,
4. What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?