And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?