4 "Imagine a man who had a hundred sheep lost one of them. Wouldn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture, and search for the one that’s lost until he finds it?
8 Imagine a woman who has ten silver15:8. Literally, drachma. coins, and loses one of them. Wouldn’t she light a lamp and sweep the house, carefully searching until she finds it?
24 because this is my son who was dead, but who has returned alive; he was lost but now he’s found.’ So they started celebrating.