The Prodigal Son

A certain man has two sons, and the younger demands his portion of the inheritance while his father still lives. He gathers everything and journeys into a far country, where he wastes his substance with riotous living. When a mighty famine strikes the land, he is reduced to feeding swine, so hungry he longs to fill his belly with the husks the pigs eat, and no man gives to him. There, at the bottom, he comes to himself: in my father's house the hired servants have bread enough and to spare. He resolves to go home and say, Father, I have sinned.

But while he is yet a great way off, his father sees him, has compassion, and runs -- falling on his neck and kissing him before the confession is even finished. The best robe, a ring, shoes, and the fatted calf mark the celebration: this my son was dead, and is alive again. The elder brother, angry in the field, refuses to join the feast, but the father goes out to him too, pleading that it was meet to make merry, for the lost has been found.