1 Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.
2 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This one accepts sinners and eats with them."
3 And he told this parable to them, saying:
4 "What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it?
5 And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6 And returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: 'Congratulate me! For I have found my sheep, which had been lost.'
7 I say to you, that there will be so much more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, than over the ninety-nine just, who do not need to repent.