What did the 99 do?

Matthew 18:12-14

Jesus said to his disciples:I have often wondered about what 99 sheep did when the shepherd went looking for the one who was lost. I remembered the image of the Basque shepherds who used to work for my great grandfather on the sheep ranch my family owned. If the shepherd started to walk from one place to another, the sheep followed him wherever he went. I believe that the 99 who were not lost went with the Shepherd when he went to look for the one who was lost. I also believe we are the 99 and every time we give of ourselves in service of others in his name, we are helping the great shepherd rescue the one who is in most need of Him.

“What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?  And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”