28. But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,
29. but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!
30. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
31. Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.
32. It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”