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29 But he answered his father, Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never disobeyed your command. Yet you never gave me [so much as] a [little] kid, that I might [a]revel and feast and be happy and make merry with my friends;

30 But when this son of yours arrived, who has devoured your estate with immoral women, you have killed for him [b]that [wheat-] fattened calf!

31 And the father said to him, Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:29 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  2. Luke 15:30 William Tyndale, The Tyndale Bible.

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