^{2 Ref} and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

³ And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

^{4 Ref} `What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

^{5 Ref} and having found, he doth lay `it' on his shoulders rejoicing,

^{6 Ref} and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.

^{7 Ref} `I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.