“What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?”
Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? — the lost sheep parable opens the chapter's trilogy. One sheep lost out of a hundred: the small proportion makes the leaving of the ninety-nine for one reasonable. Until he finds it: the persistence is non-negotiable — the search continues until the sheep is found.
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