And when she[a] has found it,[b] she calls together her[c] friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!’ 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

The Parable of the Lost Son

11 And he said, “A certain man had two sons.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:9 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“has found”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Luke 15:9 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Luke 15:9 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun