And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man [a]receives sinners (A)and eats with them.” So He spoke this parable to them, saying:

(B)“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses 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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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:2 welcomes

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”(A)

Then Jesus told them this parable:(B) “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?(C)

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