tcent - Luke:15:11-32

tcent@Luke:15:11 @ Then he said: »There was a man who had two sons.

tcent@Luke:15:12 @ And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the share of property that falls to me. So he divided his living between them.

tcent@Luke:15:13 @ Not many days after, the younger son gathered together all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.

tcent@Luke:15:14 @ And when he had spent everything, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in want.

tcent@Luke:15:15 @ So he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

tcent@Luke:15:16 @ And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

tcent@Luke:15:17 @ But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and here I perish with hunger!

tcent@Luke:15:18 @ I will arise and go to my father and will say to him, »Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

tcent@Luke:15:19 @ I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.«

tcent@Luke:15:20 @ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion for him, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

tcent@Luke:15:21 @ 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.

tcent@Luke:15:22 @ But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

tcent@Luke:15:23 @ And bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

tcent@Luke:15:24 @ for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

tcent@Luke:15:25 @ »Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

tcent@Luke:15:26 @ So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.

tcent@Luke:15:27 @ 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.

tcent@Luke:15:28 @ But he was angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

tcent@Luke:15:29 @ But he answered his father, Behold, these many years I have been serving you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

tcent@Luke:15:30 @ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!

tcent@Luke:15:31 @ And he said to him, Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.

tcent@Luke:15:32 @ It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.«