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And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for (A)I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who (B)repents than over ninety-nine (C)righteous persons who need no repentance.

The Parable of the Lost Coin

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins,[a] if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:8 Greek ten drachmas; a drachma was a Greek coin approximately equal in value to a Roman denarius, worth about a day's wage for a labourer