Luke 15.1. And all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to Him to listen to Him. 2. Then the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining, saying that “This One welcomes sinners and He eats with them.” 3. But He told them this Parable, saying, 4. “A certain man of you has one hundred sheep, and if he has lost one of them, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he would find it? 5. Then when he finds it he places it upon his shoulders rejoicing. 6. And after he comes into his house he calls together his friends and neighbors saying to them, ‘You must now rejoice with me, because I found my lost sheep.’ 7. I say to you that in this way they are rejoicing in heaven over one repenting sinner more than ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.”