and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.
and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.
‘So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.’
‘Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?