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The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni. The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father; Greek: Παραβολή του Ασώτου Υιού, romanized: Parabolē tou Asōtou Huiou) [1] [2] is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32.
The Prodigal Son, also known as Two Sons, Lost Son, the Prodigal Father, [15] the Running Father, [16] and the Loving Father, the third and final part of the cycle on redemption, also appears only in Luke's Gospel (verses 11-32). It tells of a father who gives the younger of his two sons his share of the inheritance before he dies.
The story of the Prodigal Son is told in Luke 15:11-32. The story begins with an unnamed son (the "Prodigal Son") asking his father for his inheritance. After receiving his inheritance, the son travelled to a distant country where he spent all of his money recklessly. After a famine took place in that country he found himself desperately poor.
Joel B. Green notes that "the woman described is a poor peasant", and the ten silver coins, corresponding to ten days' wages, "likely represent the family savings". [2] The coins may also have been the woman's dowry, worn as an ornament.
Verses 1 to 8a tell a story about a steward who is about to be dismissed, but "curries favor" with his master's debtors by remitting some of their debts. The New International Version calls this story "the parable of the shrewd manager", [ 4 ] reflecting the wording of verse 8a where "the master commended the dishonest manager because he had ...
The Return of the Prodigal Son) is a short story by André Gide. Gide wrote the story in early 1907. It is based on the Biblical parable of the prodigal son. The story begins with the prodigal son returning home, not repentant, but hungry, poor, and frustrated at having failed to achieve his goal.
L'enfant prodigue (The Prodigal Son), a 1884 cantata by Debussy; The Prodigal Son, a 1929 ballet by George Balanchine The Prodigal Son, music for the ballet by Prokofiev; The Prodigal Son, a 1938 ballet by David Lichine; The Prodigal Son a 1945 opera by Frederick Jacobi; The Prodigal Son (Den förlorade sonen), a 1957 ballet suite by Hugo Alfvén
The second act contains the story of the older brother, who tells of his own righteousness and his disgust at what his younger brother did. When his brother returned home, he watched in horror at how his father welcomed back his son, going so far as to even throw a party for him, even though he had never given his elder (and more upright in standing) son a party.