Luke 15:13-25

¹³A few days later, the younger son sold his share. He gathered his money and other things together and went to a country far away. There he spent all his money foolishly in reckless/wild living.

¹⁴After he had spent all his money, there was a great famine throughout that country. And soon he did not have enough food to eat.

¹⁵So he went to one of the landowners in that area and asked for work. The man sent him to work taking care of the pigs in his field.

¹⁶Because he was very hungry, he would have been glad to eat the bean pods that the pigs ate. But no one gave him anything to eat.

¹⁷Finally he thought clearly about what he had done. He said to himself, ‘All of my father's hired servants have plenty of food! They have more SYN than they can eat, but here I am dying because I do not have anything to eat HYP!

¹⁸So I will leave here and go back to my father. I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against God MTY, EUP and against you (sg).

¹⁹I am no longer worthy to be called {of you calling me} your son. Just hire me to be like one of the other hired servants.”’

²⁰So he left there and went back to his father's house. But while he was still some distance from the house, his father saw him. He pitied him. He ran to his son and embraced him and kissed him on the cheek.

²¹His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against God MTY/EUP and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called {of you calling me} your son.’

²²But his father said to his servants, ‘Go quickly and bring to me the best robe in the house! Then put it on my son. Put a ring on his finger to show that I am honoring him again as my son! Put sandals on his feet to show that I do not consider him to be a slave!

²³Then bring the fat calf and kill it and cook it. We (inc) must eat and celebrate,

²⁴because my son has returned! It is as though MET he was dead and is alive again! It is as though he was lost and now has been found!’ So they did that, and they all began to celebrate.

²⁵While all that was happening, the man's older son was out working in the field. When he came near to the house, he heard people playing music and dancing.