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And having come to the house, he calls-together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice-with me, because I found my lost sheep!’ I say to you that in this manner there will be joy in heaven over one sinner repenting more-than[a] over ninety nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance. Or what woman having ten drachmas[b], if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully until which time she finds it ?

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:7 Or, rather-than.
  2. Luke 15:8 A drachma is a Greek coin equivalent to the Roman denarius. It is one day’s wage for a laborer.

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