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There is a mathematics that no school teaches: God's mathematics, where one is worth as much as ninety-nine.

A shepherd has one hundred sheep. One goes missing. He leaves the other ninety-nine behind to search for that one-not because the others matter any less, but because even a single lost life is never insignificant.In these pages, that parable comes to life through thirteen real men: the Twelve Apostles and Paul of Tarsus. Each was sought out by Jesus at the most fragile moment of his life-in failure, in doubt, in obscurity, and even in open hostility.Peter, restored after his denial beside a fire lit especially for him. Thomas, whose honest doubt was welcomed rather than condemned. Matthew, called publicly from the most despised place in the city. Saul of Tarsus, encountered while he was persecuting the Church. And the most difficult chapter of all-that of Judas-where the mystery of a freedom that God's love never forces is explored with honesty and without easy answers.

A book of faith, history and hope, written for anyone who has ever felt like the hundredth sheep: the one outside the flock, the one who believed they had wandered too far ever to be found.