⁸ Or what woman, having ten [silver] drachmas [each one equal to a day’s wages], if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and look carefully and diligently until she finds it?

⁹ And when she has found it, she summons her [women] friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the silver coin which I had lost.

¹⁰ Even so, I tell you, there is joy among and in the presence of the angels of God over one [^[a]especially] wicked person who repents (^[b]changes his mind for the better, heartily amending his ways, with abhorrence of his past sins).