Luke 15: 1 - 3, 11 - 32
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| 1 | Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. |
| 2 | And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." |
| 3 | So he told them this parable: |
| 11 | And he said, "There was a man who had two sons; |
| 12 | and the younger of them said to his father, `Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.' And he divided his living between them. |
| 13 | Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living. |
| 14 | And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want. |
| 15 | So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. |
| 16 | And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything. |
| 17 | But when he came to himself he said, `How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger! |
| 18 | I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; |
| 19 | I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants."' |
| 20 | And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. |
| 21 | And the son said to him, `Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' |
| 22 | But the father said to his servants, `Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; |
| 23 | and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; |
| 24 | for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to make merry. |
| 25 | "Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. |
| 26 | And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant. |
| 27 | And he said to him, `Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.' |
| 28 | But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, |
| 29 | but he answered his father, `Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. |
| 30 | But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!' |
| 31 | And he said to him, `Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. |
| 32 | It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'" |
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