Lost and found
The Lost Coin
Also called The Woman and the Coin
A woman lights a lamp and sweeps the whole house until she finds one lost coin.
What it turns on
She throws a party over it. The joy is out of proportion, and that is the point.
8Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
9When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’
10Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
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