In the story a man has two sons. One day, his younger son demands that his father give him his inheritance; the father does so. The son runs away. While he is away he lives carelessly, he lives disconnected from the man he was brought up to be, and spends everything he has. To make things worse, a great famine strikes the land. Before he knows it, the younger son is working as a swineherd, and even envies the pigs he is looking after. He comes to his senses, and decided to return to his father's home, where he is willing to work as one of the servants.
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! I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants." 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 towards him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
— Luke 15:17-20
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. But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him." — Luke 15:29-30
The father explained that it was necessary for a feast to be made in honor of his younger son's return, and as for him, everything the father owned also belonged to the older son.
"My son," the father said, "you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found." - Luke 15: 31-32
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