4. “What man among you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
5. “And having found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6. “And having come home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
7. “I say to you that in the same way there shall be more joy in the heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety-nine righteous ones who need no repentance.
8. “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she finds it?
9. “And having found it, she calls friends and neighbours together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost!’
10. “I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting.”
11. And He said, “A certain man had two sons,
12. and the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods falling to me.’ And he divided his livelihood between them.
13. “And not many days after, the younger son, having gathered all together, went away to a distant country, and there wasted his goods with loose living.
14. “And when he had spent all, there arose a severe scarcity of food throughout that land, and he began to be in need.
15. “And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed pigs.