‹Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find› [it]?
‹And when she hath found› [it], ‹she calleth› [her] ‹friends and› [her] ‹neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.›
‹Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.›
And he said, ‹A certain man had two sons:›
‹And the younger of them said to› [his] ‹father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth› [to me]. ‹And he divided unto them› [his] ‹living.›
‹And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.›
‹And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.›
‹And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.›
‹And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.›
‹And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!›
