8. Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
9. When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’
10. Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
11. He said, “A certain man had two sons.
12. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.
13. Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and travelled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
14. When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
15. He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.