7`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.
8`Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?
9and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.
10`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.`
12and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to [me], and he divided to them the living.
13`And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;