Then they came to him and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are lost!" Then he awoke, and rebuked the winds and the raging of the sea. They ceased, and there was a calm.

"For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

"Salt is good, but if even the salt have lost its flavor, with what shall it be seasoned?

"Which one of you men, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

"When he gets home he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying, "Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.'

"And when she has found it, she calls together her woman friends and neighbors and say, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

"'for this son of mine was dead and is alive again??e was lost and is found.'

"'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

"Whoever seeks to keep his life shall lose it; but whoever loses it shall preserve it.

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."