mnt - 15

mnt@Luke:15:1 @ Now all the tax-gatherers and sinners continued to draw near him, and to listen to him.

mnt@Luke:15:2 @ And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"

mnt@Luke:15:3 @ And he told them a parable.

mnt@Luke:15:4 @ "Which one of you men, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

mnt@Luke:15:5 @ "And after he has found it, he lays it on his shoulder, rejoicing.

mnt@Luke:15:6 @ "When he gets home he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying, "Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.

mnt@Luke:15:7 @ "I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.

mnt@Luke:15:8 @ "Or, again, suppose a woman has ten coins. If she loses one, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and search anxiously until she finds it?

mnt@Luke:15:9 @ "And when she has found it, she calls together her woman friends and neighbors and say, Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.

mnt@Luke:15:10 @ "Even so I tell you there is joy in the presence of the angels for God over one sinner who repents."

mnt@Luke:15:11 @ And he said. "There was a man who had two sons.

mnt@Luke:15:12 @ "The younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the share of your property which is coming to me. So he divided his means among them.

mnt@Luke:15:13 @ "Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

mnt@Luke:15:14 @ "After he had spent everything there came a terrible famine in the land, and he began to be in want.

mnt@Luke:15:15 @ "So he went and hired to one of the citizens of that land, who sent him out into the fields to feed swine.

mnt@Luke:15:16 @ "And he was longing to be filled with the husks which the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

mnt@Luke:15:17 @ "When he came to himself he said. "How many of my fathers hired men have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing of hunger!

mnt@Luke:15:18 @ "I will rise and go to my father, and say to him. "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight,

mnt@Luke:15:19 @ ""I am no more worthy to be called your son; only make me like one of your hired men."

mnt@Luke:15:20 @ "So he arose and went to his father; but while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

mnt@Luke:15:21 @ "The son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and am no more worthy to be called your son.

mnt@Luke:15:22 @ "Fetch the best robe, quick, said the father to his slaves, and put it on him, and give him a ring on his finger, and shoes on his feet.

mnt@Luke:15:23 @ "Bring that fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry,

mnt@Luke:15:24 @ "for this son of mine was dead and is alive again - he was lost and is found.

mnt@Luke:15:25 @ "So they began to make merry. But his elder son was in the field, and as he drew near to the house he heard music and dancing,

mnt@Luke:15:26 @ "and he summoned one of the slaves, and began to inquire of him what all this meant.

mnt@Luke:15:27 @ "Your brother is come, he replied, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has him safe and sound.

mnt@Luke:15:28 @ "But he was angry and would not go in; so his father came out, and attempted to plead with him; but he said to his father.

mnt@Luke:15:29 @ "All these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you never gave me even a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

mnt@Luke:15:30 @ "But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with harlots, you have killed him the fatted calf.

mnt@Luke:15:31 @ "My dear son, answered his father, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours.

mnt@Luke:15:32 @ "But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found."

Luke 15