Rejoice With Me

Lost, Found, and Welcomed Home · Luke 15

Story guide: A joyful Judean shepherd carries a recovered full-size sheep while the remaining flock rests safely in a distant stone fold. Tax collectors and sinners draw near to hear Jesus while Pharisees and scribes complain.

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1All the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him to hear him.

2And both the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

3So he told them this parable, saying:

4What man among you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost one until he finds it?

5And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

6And when he comes into the house, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’

7I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who reorients toward God than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of reorientation.

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