What think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them go astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?

And if he find it, verily I say to you, he rejoiceth more over that sheep, than over the ninety and nine which went not astray.

For ye were as sheep going astray, but are now returned to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

Who have forsaken the right way and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Boser, who loved the reward of unrighteousness.