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Luke 15

The Message Bible MSG

1 By this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently.

2 The Pharisees and religion scholars were not pleased, not at all pleased. They growled, "He takes in sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends."

3 Their grumbling triggered this story.

4 "Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and lost one. Wouldn't you leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until you found it?

5 When found, you can be sure you would put it across your shoulders, rejoicing,

6 and when you got home call in your friends and neighbors, saying, 'Celebrate with me! I've found my lost sheep!'

7 Count on it - there's more joy in heaven over one sinner's rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in no need of rescue.

8 "Or imagine a woman who has ten coins and loses one. Won't she light a lamp and scour the house, looking in every nook and cranny until she finds it?

9 And when she finds it you can be sure she'll call her friends and neighbors: 'Celebrate with me! I found my lost coin!'

10 Count on it - that's the kind of party God's angels throw every time one lost soul turns to God."

11 Then he said, "There was once a man who had two sons.

12 The younger said to his father, 'Father, I want right now what's coming to me.'

13 It wasn't long before the younger son packed his bags and left for a distant country. There, undisciplined and dissipated, he wasted everything he had.

14 After he had gone through all his money, there was a bad famine all through that country and he began to hurt.

15 He signed on with a citizen there who assigned him to his fields to slop the pigs.

16 He was so hungry he would have eaten the corncobs in the pig slop, but no one would give him any.

17 "That brought him to his senses. He said, 'All those farmhands working for my father sit down to three meals a day, and here I am starving to death.

18 I'm going back to my father. I'll say to him, Father, I've sinned against God, I've sinned before you;

19 I don't deserve to be called your son. Take me on as a hired hand.'

20 He got right up and went home to his father. When he was still a long way off, his father saw him. His heart pounding, he ran out, embraced him, and kissed him.

21 The son started his speech: 'Father, I've sinned against God, I've sinned before you; I don't deserve to be called your son ever again.'

22 "But the father wasn't listening. He was calling to the servants, 'Quick. Bring a clean set of clothes and dress him. Put the family ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

23 Then get a grain-fed heifer and roast it. We're going to feast! We're going to have a wonderful time!

24 My son is here - given up for dead and now alive! Given up for lost and now found!' And they began to have a wonderful time.

25 "All this time his older son was out in the field. When the day's work was done he came in. As he approached the house, he heard the music and dancing.

26 Calling over one of the houseboys, he asked what was going on.

27 He told him, 'Your brother came home. Your father has ordered a feast - barbecued beef! - because he has him home safe and sound.'

28 "The older brother stalked off in an angry sulk and refused to join in. His father came out and tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen.

29 The son said, 'Look how many years I've stayed here serving you, never giving you one moment of grief, but have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends?

30 Then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on whores shows up and you go all out with a feast!'

31 "His father said, 'Son, you don't understand. You're with me all the time, and everything that is mine is yours -

32 but this is a wonderful time, and we had to celebrate. This brother of yours was dead, and he's alive! He was lost, and he's found!'"

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 erant autem adpropinquantes ei publicani et peccatores ut audirent illum

2 et murmurabant Pharisaei et scribae dicentes quia hic peccatores recipit et manducat cum illis

3 et ait ad illos parabolam istam dicens

4 quis ex vobis homo qui habet centum oves et si perdiderit unam ex illis nonne dimittit nonaginta novem in deserto et vadit ad illam quae perierat donec inveniat illam

5 et cum invenerit eam inponit in umeros suos gaudens

6 et veniens domum convocat amicos et vicinos dicens illis congratulamini mihi quia inveni ovem meam quae perierat

7 dico vobis quod ita gaudium erit in caelo super uno peccatore paenitentiam habente quam super nonaginta novem iustis qui non indigent paenitentia

8 aut quae mulier habens dragmas decem si perdiderit dragmam unam nonne accendit lucernam et everrit domum et quaerit diligenter donec inveniat

9 et cum invenerit convocat amicas et vicinas dicens congratulamini mihi quia inveni dragmam quam perdideram

10 ita dico vobis gaudium erit coram angelis Dei super uno peccatore paenitentiam agente

11 ait autem homo quidam habuit duos filios

12 et dixit adulescentior ex illis patri pater da mihi portionem substantiae quae me contingit et divisit illis substantiam

13 et non post multos dies congregatis omnibus adulescentior filius peregre profectus est in regionem longinquam et ibi dissipavit substantiam suam vivendo luxuriose

14 et postquam omnia consummasset facta est fames valida in regione illa et ipse coepit egere

15 et abiit et adhesit uni civium regionis illius et misit illum in villam suam ut pasceret porcos

16 et cupiebat implere ventrem suum de siliquis quas porci manducabant et nemo illi dabat

17 in se autem reversus dixit quanti mercennarii patris mei abundant panibus ego autem hic fame pereo

18 surgam et ibo ad patrem meum et dicam illi pater peccavi in caelum et coram te

19 et iam non sum dignus vocari filius tuus fac me sicut unum de mercennariis tuis

20 et surgens venit ad patrem suum cum autem adhuc longe esset vidit illum pater ipsius et misericordia motus est et adcurrens cecidit supra collum eius et osculatus est illum

21 dixitque ei filius pater peccavi in caelum et coram te iam non sum dignus vocari filius tuus

22 dixit autem pater ad servos suos cito proferte stolam primam et induite illum et date anulum in manum eius et calciamenta in pedes

23 et adducite vitulum saginatum et occidite et manducemus et epulemur

24 quia hic filius meus mortuus erat et revixit perierat et inventus est et coeperunt epulari

25 erat autem filius eius senior in agro et cum veniret et adpropinquaret domui audivit symphoniam et chorum

26 et vocavit unum de servis et interrogavit quae haec essent

27 isque dixit illi frater tuus venit et occidit pater tuus vitulum saginatum quia salvum illum recepit

28 indignatus est autem et nolebat introire pater ergo illius egressus coepit rogare illum

29 at ille respondens dixit patri suo ecce tot annis servio tibi et numquam mandatum tuum praeterii et numquam dedisti mihi hedum ut cum amicis meis epularer

30 sed postquam filius tuus hic qui devoravit substantiam suam cum meretricibus venit occidisti illi vitulum saginatum

31 at ipse dixit illi fili tu semper mecum es et omnia mea tua sunt

32 epulari autem et gaudere oportebat quia frater tuus hic mortuus erat et revixit perierat et inventus est