1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to
listen to him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling
and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them."
3So he told them this parable: 4"Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-
nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he
finds it? 5When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and
rejoices. 6And when he comes home, he calls together his friends