Beginner Lesson 2 -
The Lost Sheep

This reading exercise is the second part of Beginner Lesson 2, the Parable of the Lost Sheep. You can also do it as an individual reading exercise.

First, here are the answers to the Listening questions for this lesson.

1.  Who came to listen to Jesus?
Tax collectors and sinners

2.  How many sheep did the shepherd have?
100

3.  How many sheep became lost?
1

4.  Who did the shepherd call when he found the lost sheep?
He called his friends and neighbors.

Reading Text

Here is the text for this parable. Read it several times. Try not to look up all the words you don’t know. Instead, just try to understand what the word means by understanding the context of the sentence.

When you have finished reading, download the PDF. This way, you can read the passage and listen at the same time. Read and listen together several times.

The Lost Sheep

Luke 15:1-7 CEV

Tax collectors and sinners were all crowding around to listen to Jesus. So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

Then Jesus told them this story:

If any of you has 100 sheep, and one of them gets lost, what will you do? Won’t you leave the 99 in the field and go look for the lost sheep until you find it? And when you find it, you will be so glad that you will put it on your shoulder and carry it home. Then you will call in your friends and neighbors and say, “Let’s celebrate! I’ve found my lost sheep.”

Jesus said, “In the same way there is more happiness in heaven because of one sinner who turns to God than over 99 good people who don’t need to.”