9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!’
10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
11 And he said, “A certain man had two sons.
12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that is coming to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.
13 And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth by living wastefully.
14 And after he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.
15 And he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.