28 "Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.29 But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets 15:30 Or life, or livelihoodwith prostitutes, 15:30 Pr 29:3you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’
31 " ‘Son,’ 15:31 Lit Childhe said to him, ‘you are always with me, 15:31 Jn 8:35and everything I have is yours.32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ "