Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, \u2018This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.\u2019<\/p>\n
So he told them this parable: \u2018Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, \u201cRejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.\u201d Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, \u2018This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.\u2019 So he told them this parable: \u2018Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-parable-of-the-lost-sheep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}