Luke 15

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1 Then all of the tax-collectors and the wrongdoers were approaching Him to hear Him.
2 And both the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring saying that "He receives wrongdoers and eats together with them!"
3 So He spoke to them this parable, saying:
4 "Which man from among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go for that which is lost until he should find it?
5 And finding it places it upon his shoulder rejoicing,
6 and coming to the house will call together friends and neighbors saying to them 'Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep which is lost!'
7 I say to you that thusly there shall be joy in heaven upon the repenting of one wrongdoer rather than upon ninety-nine righteous who have no need of repentance!
8 "Or what woman having ten drachma should lose one drachma, would not ignite a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully until when she would find it?
9 And finding it would call together lady-friends and women neighbors saying 'Rejoice with me, because I found the drachma which I had lost!'
10 Thusly, I say to you, there is joy at the presence of the messengers of Yahweh upon the repenting of one wrongdoer."
11 Then He said: "A certain man has two sons.
12 And the younger of them said to the father, 'Father, give to me the allotted portion of the property.' So he divided the substance with them.
13 And after not many days gathering everything the younger son traveled abroad to a distant land and there squandered his property, living profligately.
14 Then upon his spending everything there came a severe famine upon that land, and he began to be in want.
15 And going he joined himself to one of the citizens of that land, who then sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he desired to be fed from the husks of which the swine were eating, yet no one gave to him.
17 And coming to his senses he said 'How many employees of my father have abundance of bread, but I perish here in famine!
18 Arising I shall go to my father and I shall ask him, 'Father I did wrong to heaven and before you,
19 no longer am I worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your employees!'
20 And arising he went to his father. Yet upon his still being afar off, his father seeing him then had been deeply moved and running fell upon his neck and kissed him.
21 But the son said to him 'Father, I did wrong to heaven and before you. No longer am I worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your employees!'
22 But the father said to his servants: 'Quick! Bring out the best robe and clothe him, and provide rings for his hands and sandals for his feet.
23 And bring the fattened calf, sacrifice, and eating we should celebrate,
24 because he my son was dead and lives again, was lost and is found!' And they began to celebrate.
25 And his elder son was in the field. And coming as he approached the house he heard music and dancing,
26 and calling to one of the servants he inquired what these things could be,
27 and he said to him that 'Your brother has come, and your father has sacrificed the fattened calf, because he being healthy has been recovered!'
28 Then he was angry and did not wish to enter in, but his father coming out called to him.
29 And replying he said to his father: 'Behold, I serve you so many years and at no time have I transgressed your command, yet to me you have never given a goat in order that I may make merry with my friends.
30 But when that son of yours is come, who has devoured your substance with prostitutes, you have sacrificed the fattened calf for him!'
31 So he said to him 'Child, you are always with me, and all things that are mine are yours,
32 but to celebrate and to rejoice is necessary, because he your brother was dead and lives, and lost and is found!'"