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11 [a]For the Son of man came to save [[b]from the penalty of eternal death] that which was lost.

12 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray and gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain and go in search of the one that is lost?

13 And if it should be that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:11 Many manuscripts do not contain this verse.
  2. Matthew 18:11 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.

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