NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 1

Luke 15:1

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Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

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Luke 15:1–4

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Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

He told them this parable:

“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?

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