Today's Gospel Reading
This is from my unedited translation.
Luke 15:1 All the tax agents and sinners were getting close to him to hear him, 2 yet the Observant and Covenant Code scholars were grumbling, saying, “This one attends to ‘sinners’ and eats with them.”
3 He told them this comparison, saying…
11 He said,
Some human had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to the father, “Father, give me the portion of the estate tossed [toward me].” He apportioned the property to them. 13 Not many days after, assembling everything, the younger son traveled abroad to a far-off region and there scattered his estate, living un-redemptively. 14 He’s exhausting everything … a strong famine came against that region, and he began to lack. 15 Journeying, he united himself to one of that region’s citizens, and he [citizen] sent him into his fields to feed hogs, 16 and he was desiring to be satisfied from the carob pods that the hogs were eating, and no one was giving [any] to him. 17 Coming to himself, he said, “How many of my father’s hired servants flow over with breads and I am being destroyed here in a famine. 18 Arising, I will journey to my father and I will say to him, ‘Father, I sinned toward heaven and before you, 19 I no longer deserve to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants’.” 20 Arising, he came to his own father. While he was far away … His father saw him and commiserated and, running, fell upon his neck [hugged] and kissed him. 21 The son said to him, “Father, I sinned toward heaven and before you, I no longer deserve to be called your son.” 22 The father said to his slaves, “Quickly, carry out [here] the first stole and put it on him, and give a ring for his finger and soles for the feet, 23 and bring the fat-calf, slaughter and, eating, let us be glad 24 because this my son was dead and lived again, was lost and now has been found.” They began to be glad.
25 His older son was in the field. As coming, he came close to the house, he heard harmony and dancing, 26 and calling one of the young servants, he was inquiring what these things might be. 27 He said to him that your brother has come and your father slaughtered the fat-calf because he received him back healthy. 28 He was angered and did not want to enter. His father, exiting, encouraged him. 29 He, responding, said to his father, “Look! All these years I slave for you and not once did I pass by your order, and not once did you give for me a goat that I could be glad with my male friends. 30 When this your son, the one gobbling up your property with prostitutes, came, you slaughtered for him the fat-calf.” 31 He said to him, “Child, you are always with me and all my things are your things. 32 It’s necessary to be glad and to rejoice because this your brother was dead and lived, and lost and has been found.”