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Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him .
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And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured ,
saying , "
This man receives sinners and eats with them ."
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So he told them this parable :
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What man of you ,
having a hundred sheep ,
if he has lost one of them ,
does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness ,
and go after the one which is lost ,
until he finds it ?
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And when he has found it ,
he lays it on his shoulders ,
rejoicing .
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And when he comes home ,
he calls together his friends and his neighbors ,
saying to them , `
Rejoice with me ,
for I have found my sheep which was lost .'
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Just so ,
I tell you ,
there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance .
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Or what woman ,
having ten silver coins ,
if she loses one coin ,
does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it ?
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And when she has found it ,
she calls together her friends and neighbors ,
saying , `
Rejoice with me ,
for I have found the coin which I had lost .'
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Just so ,
I tell you ,
there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents ."
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And he said , "
There was a man who had two sons ;
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and the younger of them said to his father , `
Father ,
give me the share of property that falls to me .'
And he divided his living between them .
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Not many days later ,
the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country ,
and there he squandered his property in loose living .
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And when he had spent everything ,
a great famine arose in that country ,
and he began to be in want .
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So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country ,
who sent him into his fields to feed swine .
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And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate ;
and no one gave him anything .