Twentieth_Century(i)
20 And he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was deeply moved; he ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him.
21 'Father,' the son said, 'I sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.'
22 But the father turned to his servants and said 'Be quick and fetch a robe--the very best--and put it on him; give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet;
23 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;
24 For here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.' So they began making merry.
25 Meanwhile the elder son was out in the fields; but, on coming home, when he got near the house, he heard music and dancing,
26 And he called one of the servants and asked what it all meant.
27 'Your brother has come back,' the servant told him, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.'
28 This made him angry, and he would not go in. But his father came out and begged him to do so.
29 'No,' he said to his father, 'look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends.
30 But, no sooner has this son of yours come, who has eaten up your property in the company of prostitutes, than you have killed the fattened calf for him.'
31 'Child,' the father answered, 'you are always with me, and everything that I have is yours.
32 We could but make merry and rejoice, for here is your brother who was dead, and is alive; who was lost, and is found.'"