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11 [The Son of Man came to save lost people.][a]

12 “If a man has 100 sheep, but 1 of the sheep gets lost, he will leave the other 99 sheep on the hill. He will go to look for the lost sheep. 13 And if he finds it, he is happier about that 1 sheep than about the 99 that were never lost. I tell you the truth.

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  1. 18:11 The . . . people. Some Greek copies do not contain the bracketed text.

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12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.

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  1. Matthew 18:11 Some manuscripts include here the words of Luke 19:10.