1. One day when many tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus,
2. the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law started grumbling, “This man welcomes outcasts and even eats with them!”
3. So Jesus told them this parable:
4. “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them — what do you do? You leave the other 99 sheep in the pasture and go looking for the one that got lost until you find it.