^{12 Ref} How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray?

^{13 Ref} And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray.

^{14 Ref} Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.