1. Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.
2. But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3. So Jesus told them this parable:
4. “Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?
5. Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6. Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’