“What man among you having a hundred sheep and loosing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

And, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors

and says to them, “Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.

I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than ninety-nine righteous people who have no need