8. “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds it?
9. And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.’
10. In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.”
11. To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons.
12. The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.
13. “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.