^36 (A)But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were ^[a]weary and scattered, ^(B)like sheep having no shepherd.

^6 (A)But go rather to the ^(B)lost sheep of the house of Israel.

²⁴ But He answered and said, ^(A)“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

The Parable of the Lost Sheep^(A)

¹⁰ “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven ^(B)their angels always ^(C)see the face of My Father who is in heaven. ^11 (D)For^[a] the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

^12 (E)“What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? ¹³ And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. ¹⁴ Even so it is not the ^(F)will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.