to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, 014:030 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.' 014:031 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 014:032 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace. 014:033 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple. 014:034 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? 014:035 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear." 015:001 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. 015:002 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them." 015:003 He told them this parable. 015:004 "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? 015:005 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 015:006 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' 015:007 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. 015:008 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma{A drachma coin was worth about 2 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? 015:009 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.' 015:010 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting." 015:011 He said, "A certain man had two sons. 015:012 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. 015:013 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. 015:014 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. 015:015 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 015:016 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. 015:017 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired