Thematic Bible: Prodigality


Thematic Bible



And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.


Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.


Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls
While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils,
Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.

And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.

but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’




And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.


Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished.

Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

The fruit you long for has gone from you, and all things that were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and men will no longer find them.


Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.