[Luke 15]

 

             ^15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him to hear him. ^15:2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying, This man accepts sinners and eats together-with them.

             {Similar: Mat 18:12-14, Luk 15:3-7}

             ^15:3 Now he spoke to them this parable, saying: ^15:4 What man out-of you^°, who has a hundred sheep and if he lost one out-of them, does he not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and travel to the lost one, until he should find it? ^15:5 And he found it and places it upon his shoulders, rejoicing. ^15:6 He went to the house and calls together the friends and the neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice^° together-with me, because I found my sheep, the lost one. ^15:7 I say to you^° thus, There will be joy in heaven over one repenting sinner, more than over ninety-nine righteous ones, who have no need of repentance.

             ^15:8 Or what woman who has ten two-denarii-coins, if she loses one two-denarii-coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek carefully until which time she should find it? ^15:9 And after she found it, she calls together the friends and hesaying, Rejoice^° together-with me; I found the two-denarii-coin which I lost. ^15:10 So, I say to you^°, It becomes joy in the sight of the messengers of God over one repenting sinner.

 

             ^15:11 Now he said, A certain man had two sons. ^15:12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the part of the estate that would be put toward me. And he sectioned off his livelihood to them. ^15:13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered it all together and went-abroad into a far region, and he squandered his estate with riotous living there. ^15:14 Now after he spent all, a mighty famine happened throughout that region, and he himself began to come-short of money. ^15:15 And he traveled away and joined himself to one of the citizens of that region, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. ^15:16 And he was desiring to fill his belly from the carob pods of which the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him. ^15:17 Now after he came to himself, he said, How-many of my father’s hired servants are abounding, even of bread? But I am perishing here in famine! ^15:18 After I have risen^* up, I will be traveling to my father, and will say to him, Father, I sinned at heaven, and in your sight. ^15:19 And I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make^* me like one of your hired servants. ^15:20 And he stood up and came to his father.

             But while being still distant, far from him, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him. ^15:21 But the son said to him, Father, I sinned at heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.

             ^15:22 But the father said to his bondservants, Bring^° out the foremost robe and clothe^° him, and give^° him a ring ^*for his hand and shoes ^*for his feet; ^15:23 and after you^° have brought the fattened calf, sacrifice^° it, and after we have eaten it, we should be joyous. ^15:24 Because this one, my son, was dead and then lived again, and lost and then was found. And they began to be joyous. ^15:25 Now his elder son was in the field and as while coming, he drew near to the house, and he heard harmony and dancing. ^15:26 And he called one of the young-servants and was inquiring what these things might be.

             ^15:27 But he said to him, Your brother is coming, and your father sacrificed the fattened calf because he has received him back healthy. ^15:28 But he was made angry and was not willing to enter and therefore, his father went forth and was pleading with him.

             ^15:29 But he answered and said to his father, Behold, I did serve^* you for so-many years, and I never transgressed a commandment from you, and yet you never gave me a young-goat in-order-that I might be joyous with my friends. ^15:30 But when this one, your son came, who devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you sacrificed the fattened calf for him.

             ^15:31 Now he said to him, Child, you are always with me, and all the things which are mine are yours. ^15:32 But it was essential to be joyous and rejoice, because this one, your brother was dead, and then lived again, and lost and then was found.