1 Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to hear him.
2 And both the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!”
3 So he told them this parable, saying,
4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it?
5 And
6 And
7 I tell you that in the
8 Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds
9 And
10 In the
11 And he said, “A certain man had two sons.
12 And the younger of them said to
13 And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything
14 And
15 And he went
16 And he was longing to stuff himself with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving
17 “But
18 I will set out
19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.’
20 And he set out
21 And
22 But
23 And bring the fattened calf—kill
24 because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.
25 “Now his older son was in the field, and when he came
26 And he summoned one of the slaves
27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has gotten him back healthy.’
28 But he became angry and did not want to go in. So his father came out
29 But he answered
30 But when this son of yours returned—who has consumed your assets with prostitutes—you killed the fattened calf for him!’
31 But he said to him, ‘Child, you are always with me, and
32 But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!’ ”