Passage Overview · Free · Luke 15:8–10
The Woman Who Searches Until She Finds
A woman with ten silver coins loses one, lights a lamp, sweeps the house, searches carefully until she finds it, and calls others to rejoice. Jesus says there is joy before God’s angels over one sinner who repents.
Where this fits in the story: the second parable repeats the lost-found-rejoice structure while changing the central seeker, reinforcing that the point is God’s valuation of the lost rather than one gendered image.
Together the sheep and coin stories prepare readers for the much longer family story that follows.