God's Prodigal People: Jesus Confronts the Scribes & Pharisees

As Jesus continues teaching on His final journey to Jerusalem, He turns to the Scribes and Pharisees who complain about His eating with publicans and sinners.
Jesus uses three parables to explain the joy that should result from the repentance of just one sinner.
In the first two, Jesus makes it clear that if men go after a lost lamb or coin, then how can it be wrong for Him to go after a lost soul?
The final and most famous parable of the Prodigal Son is more properly named the 'Parable of the Two Lost Sons' and Jesus again shows these false shepherds of Israel how wrong they are to refuse such celebrations, like the older son.