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Matthew 18

The Parable of the Wandering Sheep

¹⁰ “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. ^[11] ^[a
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¹² “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? ¹³ And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. ¹⁴ In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

I haven’t had sheep, but we do have rabbits( as pets) four of them. And when one runs away, we do leave the rest of the animals (we’ve had 9 pets at one time) and go out at night, with torches, looking for the wandering bunny.

And Jesus says, that he has the same concern for each human being

Bangladeshi workers watched Chinese nationals board a ship bound for Greece in the Benghazi port

for the migrant workers– from Vietnam and Thailand, Bangladesh and Ghana —stranded by war in Libya, and, in some cases, forsaken by their employers, Turkish construction companies whose managers quickly left Libya, sometimes without returning the workers’ passports.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/world/africa/27migrants.html

or the Africans there

New York Times, same article. “There seemed to be little assistance available for black African workers, including many from Ghana, Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso. Libya has become a dangerous place to be a black man, after Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi used African mercenaries to kill opponents of his government. Now the workers, some of whom have seen colleagues killed, are kept under armed guard and moved from place to place because residents have objected to their presence.”