Luke 15
1 The tax-gatherers and the outcasts were all drawing near to Jesus to listen to him;
Were now to Him drawing near all the tax collectors and the sinners to hear Him.
2 but the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law found fault. “This man always welcomes outcasts, and takes meals with them!” they complained.
And were grumbling the (both *no) Pharisees and the scribes saying that This [man] sinners receives and he eats with them.
3 So Jesus told them this parable —
He spoke then to them parable this saying;
4 “What man among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it?
What man of you having a hundred sheep and (having lost *NK+o) of them one not leaves the ninety nine in the open field and goes after the [one] having been lost until he may find it?
5 And, when he has found it, he puts in on his shoulders rejoicing;
And having found [it] he lays [it] on the shoulders (of him *N+kO) rejoicing,
6 and, on reaching home, he calls his friends and his neighbours together, and says ‘Come and rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.’
And having come to the house he calls together the friends and the neighbours saying to them; do rejoice with me, for I have found the sheep of mine the [one] having been lost!
7 So, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in Heaven over one outcast that repents, than over ninety-nine religious men, who have no need to repent.
I say to you that in the same way joy in heaven there will be over one sinner repenting rather than over ninety nine righteous ones who no need have of repentance.
8 Or again, what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?
Or what woman drachmas having ten, if she may lose drachma one, surely she lights a lamp and she sweeps the house and she seeks carefully until (it *N+kO) she may find?
9 And, when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbours together, and says ‘Come and rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost.’
And having found [it] (she calls together *N+kO) the friends and neighbours saying; do rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma that I lost.
10 So, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of God’s angels over one outcast that repents.”
Thus I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner repenting.
11 Then Jesus continued: “A man had two sons;
He said then; A man certain had two sons.
12 and the younger of them said to his father ‘Father, give me my share of the inheritance.’ So the father divided the property between them.
And said the younger of them to the father; Father, do give to me what is due [to me] portion of the property. (then *N+kO) he divided between them the property.
13 A few days later the younger son got together all that he had, and went away into a distant land; and there he squandered his inheritance by leading a dissolute life.
And after not many days having gathered together (all [things] *N+kO) the younger son went away into a country distant and there he wasted the estate of him living prodigally.
14 After he has spent all that he had, there was a severe famine through all that country, and he began to be in actual want.
When was spending however he everything there arose a famine (severe *N+kO) throughout the country that, and he himself began to be in need.
15 So he went and engaged himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs.
And having gone he joined himself to one of the citizens the country of that, and he sent him into the fields of him to feed pigs.
16 He even longed to satisfy his hunger with the bean-pods on which the pigs were feeding; and no one gave him anything.
And he was longing (to be fed *N+kO) (the *ko) (stomach of him *KO) (from *N+kO) the pods that were eating the pigs, and no [one] was giving to him.
17 But, when he came to himself, he said ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!
To himself however having come (he was saying; *N+kO) How many hired servants of the father of mine (have abundance *N+kO) of bread, I myself however with hunger (here *NO) am perishing!
18 I will get up and go to my father, and say to him “Father, I sinned against Heaven and against you;
Having risen up I will go to the father of mine and I will say to him; Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
19 I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.”’
(and *k) no longer no longer am I worthy to be called son of you. do make me like one of the servants of you.
20 And he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was deeply moved; he ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him.
And having risen up he went to the father (of himself *NK+o) Still now he far being distant he saw him the father of him and was moved with compassion, and having run he fell upon the neck of him and he kissed him.
21 ‘Father,’ the son said, ‘I sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.’
Said then the son to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; (and *k) no longer no longer am I worthy to be called son of you (do make me as one of the servants of you. *O)
22 But the father turned to his servants and said ‘Be quick and fetch a robe — the very best — and put it on him; give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet;
Said then the father to the servants of him; (Quickly *NO) do bring out robe the best and do clothe him and do give a ring for the hand of him and sandals for [his] feet,
23 and bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;
and (do bring *N+kO) the calf fattened, do kill [it], and having eaten let us be merry,
24 for here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.’ So they began making merry.
For this the son of mine dead was and is alive again, (and *k) he was having been lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
25 Meanwhile the elder son was out in the fields; but, on coming home, when he got near the house, he heard music and dancing,
Was now the son of him the elder in [the] field. and while coming [up] he drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 and he called one of the servants and asked what it all meant.
And having called near one of the servants (of him *k) he was inquiring what (maybe *no) would be these things.
27 ‘Your brother has come back,’ the servant told him, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’
And he said to him that The brother of you is come, and has killed the father of you the calf fattened, because in good health him he has received.
28 This made him angry, and he would not go in. But his father came out and begged him to do so.
He was angry however and not he was willing to go in. (And *N+KO) the father of him having gone he was begging him.
29 ‘No,’ he said to his father, ‘look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends.
And answering he said to the [the] father of him; Behold so many years I serve you and never a commandment of you I disobeyed, and to me myself never did you give a young goat that with the friends of mine I may make merry.
30 But, no sooner has this son of yours come, who has eaten up your property in the company of prostitutes, than you have killed the fattened calf for him.’
When however the son of you this the [one] having devoured your living with prostitutes came, you have killed for him the fattened calf.
31 ‘Child,’ the father answered, ‘you are always with me, and everything that I have is yours.
And he said to him; Son, you yourself always with me are, and all that [is] mine yours is.
32 We could but make merry and rejoice, for here is your brother who was dead, and is alive; who was lost, and is found.’”
To make merry however and to rejoice it was fitting, because the brother of you this dead was and (is alive, *N+KO) and having been lost (was *k) and is found.
