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The tax-collectors and sinners kept gathering around to hear Yeshua,
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and the P'rushim and Torah-teachers kept grumbling. "This
fellow," they said, "welcomes sinners -- he even eats with
them!"
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So he told them this parable:
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"If one of you has a hundred sheep and loses
one of them, doesn't he leave the other ninety-nine in the desert and go
after the lost one until he finds it?
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When he does find it, he joyfully hoists it onto his
shoulders;
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and when he gets home, he calls his friends and
neighbors together and says, `Come, celebrate with me, because I have
found my lost sheep!'
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I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one
sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous
people who have no need to repent."
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