¹² What do you think?^(A) If someone has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go and search for the stray?^(B)

⁴ “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them,^(A) does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field^[a] and go after the lost one until he finds it?