^36 (A)Seeing the ^[a]people, He felt compassion for them, ^(B)because they were ^[b]distressed and ^[c]dispirited like sheep ^[d]without a shepherd.

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

Ninety-nine Plus One

¹² “What do you think? ^(A)If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? ¹³ If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

⁴ “^(A)What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the ^[a]open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?