014:035 Neither for land nor dunghill is it of any use; they throw it away. Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!" 015:001 Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him; 015:002 and this led the Pharisees and the Scribes indignantly to complain, saying, "He gives a welcome to notorious sinners, and joins them at their meals!" 015:003 So in figurative language He asked them, 015:004 "Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture and go in search of the lost one till he finds it? 015:005 And when he has found it, he lifts it on his shoulder, glad at heart. 015:006 Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, `Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep-- the one I had lost.' 015:007 I tell you that in the same way there will be rejoicing in Heaven over one repentant sinner--more rejoicing than over ninety-nine blameless persons who have no need of repentance. 015:008 "Or what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully till she finds it? 015:009 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, and says, "`Congratulate me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.' 015:010 "I tell you that in the same way there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one repentant sinner." 015:011 He went on to say, "There was a man who had two sons. 015:012 The younger of them said to his father, "`Father, give me the share of the property that comes to me.' "So he divided his wealth between them. 015:013 No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess. 015:014 At last, when he had spent everything, there came a terrible famine throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch of want. 015:015 So he went and hired himself to one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him on to his farm to tend swine; 015:016 and he longed to make a hearty meal of the pods the swine were eating, but no one gave him any. 015:017 "But on coming to himself he said, "`How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger! 015:018 I will rise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you: 015:019 I no longer deserve to be called a son of yours: treat me as one of your hired men.'