Luke 15

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1 All publicans and sinners were approaching Him to listen to Him.
2 The Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying: He receives sinners and eats with them.
3 But He told them the following parable:
4 Who among you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, will not leave ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the missing until he finds it?
5 And when he finds it, he will take it on his shoulders with joy
6th And coming home, he will call friends and neighbors and say to them: Rejoice with me: I found my lost sheep.
7th I tell you that in this heaven there will be more joy in one heaven than a ninety-nine righteous who have no need of repentance for one sinner repenting.
8 Or what woman, having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, she does not light a candle and will not seek revenge on the room and look carefully until she finds it,
9 And when he finds, he will call his friends and neighbors and say: rejoice with me: I found the lost drachma.
10 So, I tell you, there is joy in the angels of God and about one sinner repenting.

eleven He also said: some man had two sons;
12 And the younger of them said to his father: Father! Give me the next part of the estate. And [the father] divided his estate.
13 After a few days, the youngest son, having collected everything, went to the far side and there he wasted his estate, living dissolute.
14 When he lived everything, a great famine came in that country, and he began to need;
15 And he went and joined one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him to the fields to feed the pigs;
16 And he was glad to fill his belly with the horns that the pigs ate, but no one gave him.
17th When he came to himself, he said: how many of my father's mercenaries are overfilled with bread, and I'm dying of hunger;
18 I will arise, I will go to my father, and I will say to him: Father! I have sinned against heaven and before you
19 And is no longer worthy to be called your son; Accept me as one of your mercenaries.
20 He got up and went to his father. And when he was still far away, his father saw him and took pity; And ran, fell on his neck and kissed him.
21 The son said to him: Father! I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no longer worthy to be called thy son.
22 And the father said to his servants, Bring the best clothes, and put it on, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet;
23 And bring the fatted calf, and kill; Let us eat and have fun!
24 For this my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and was found. And they began to have fun.
25 His eldest son was in the field; And coming back, when he approached the house, he heard singing and glee;
26th And, calling one of the servants, asked: what is this?
27th He said to him, "Your brother has come, and your father killed the fatted calf, because he accepted him well."
28 He was angry and did not want to enter. His father came out and called out to him.
29 But he said in answer to his father: behold, I have served you for so many years, and have never transgressed your orders, but you never gave me a kid, that I might have fun with my friends;
thirty And when this thy son, who hath devoured his possessions with harlots, came, thou hast killed for him a fattened calf.
31 He said to him: My son! You are always with me, and everything is mine,
32 But it was necessary to rejoice and be glad that your brother was dead and come alive, was lost and was found.

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