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

The Parable of the Lost Coin

Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?[a] And when she[b] has found it,[c] she calls together her[d] friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!’

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:8 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Luke 15:9 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“has found”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Luke 15:9 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Luke 15:9 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun