4 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
8 "Or what woman, if she had ten drachma 15:8 A drachma coin was worth about a days wages for an agricultural laborer. coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
24 for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.