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Themes in Luke 15
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Themes in Luke 15

Luke 15:1

All the tax-collectors and irreligious people were crowding up to hear him.

Luke 15:2

And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, and said, "This man welcomes irreligious people, and even eats with them!"

Luke 15:3

So in speaking to them he used this figure:

Luke 15:4

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go in search of the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Luke 15:5

And when he finds it, he puts it on his shoulders with joy,

Luke 15:6

and when he reaches home, he calls in his friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my lost sheep!'

Luke 15:7

I tell you, in just that way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents, than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.

Luke 15:8

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one, does not light the lamp and sweep the house and look carefully until she finds it?

Luke 15:9

And when she finds it, she calls in her friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin that I lost!'

Luke 15:10

In just that way, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one sinful person who repents!"

Luke 15:11

And he said, "A man had two sons.

Luke 15:12

The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the property.' So he divided his property between them.

Luke 15:13

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

Luke 15:14

After he had spent it all, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want.

Luke 15:15

And he went and hired himself out to a resident of the country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

Luke 15:16

And he was ready to fill himself with the pods the pigs were eating, and no one would give him anything.

Luke 15:17

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

Luke 15:18

I will get up, and go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your eyes;

Luke 15:19

I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired men!" '

Luke 15:20

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Luke 15:21

His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your eyes; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired men!'

Luke 15:22

But his father said to his slaves, 'Make haste and get out the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet;

Luke 15:23

and get the calf we are fattening, and kill it, and let us feast and celebrate,

Luke 15:24

for my son here was dead, and he has come to life; he was lost, and he is found!' So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:25

But his elder son was in the field. When he came in and approached the house, he heard music and dancing,

Luke 15:26

and he called one of the servants to him and asked him what it meant.

Luke 15:27

He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf he has been fattening, because he has gotten him back alive and well.'

Luke 15:28

But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him.

Luke 15:29

And he said to his father, 'Here I have served you all these years, and have never disobeyed an order of yours, and you have never given me a kid, so that I could entertain my friends.

Luke 15:30

But when your son here came, who has eaten up your property with women of the street, for him you killed the calf you have been fattening!'

Luke 15:31

But he said to him, 'My child, you have been with me all the time, and everything I have is yours.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because your brother was dead, and has come to life, and was lost and is found!' "
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