Luke 15:2-4

EasyEnglish Bible

² The Pharisees and teachers of God's Law did not like this. ‘This man is friendly with people that do not obey God,’ they said. ‘He even eats with them in their homes.’

A story about a sheep that a man has lost^[a]

³ So Jesus told them this story: ⁴ ‘Think about a man who has 100 sheep.^[b] He may lose one of them. What does he do then? He leaves all his other sheep in the fields. Then he goes. He looks for the sheep that he has lost. He looks until he finds it.