The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 15
{15:1} Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to
him to hear him. {15:2} The Pharisees and the scribes murmured,
saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
{15:3} He told them this parable. {15:4} "Which of you men, if you
had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the
ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost,
until he found it? {15:5} When he has found it, he carries it on his
shoulders, rejoicing. {15:6} When he comes home, he calls together his
friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I
have found my sheep which was lost!' {15:7} I tell you that even so
there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than
over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. {15:8} Or
what woman, if she had ten [1>]drachma[<1] coins, if she lost one
drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek
diligently until she found it? {15:9} When she has found it, she calls
together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I
have found the drachma which I had lost.' {15:10} Even so, I tell you,
there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner
repenting."
{15:11} He said, "A certain man had two sons. {15:12} The younger of
them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.'
He divided his livelihood between them. {15:13} Not many days after,
the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far
country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. {15:14}
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that
country, and he began to be in need. {15:15} He went and joined
himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into
his fields to feed pigs. {15:16} He wanted to fill his belly with the
husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. {15:17} But when he
came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have
bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger! {15:18} I will get
up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned
against heaven, and in your sight. {15:19} I am no more worthy to be
called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'
{15:20} "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still
far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him. {15:21} The son said to him,
'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no
longer worthy to be called your son.'
{15:22} "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best
robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his
feet. {15:23} Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and
celebrate; {15:24} for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He
was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.
{15:25} "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the
house, he heard music and dancing. {15:26} He called one of the
servants to him, and asked what was going on. {15:27} He said to him,
'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf,
because he has received him back safe and healthy.' {15:28} But he was
angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged
him. {15:29} But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I
have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you
never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. {15:30}
But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with
prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
{15:31} "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that
is mine is yours. {15:32} But it was appropriate to celebrate and be
glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was
lost, and is found.'"
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Footnotes:
[1] {15:8} A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an
agricultural laborer.
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