29 But he answered and[a] said to his father, ‘Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends! 30 But when this son of yours returned—who has consumed your assets with prostitutes—you killed the fattened calf for him!’ 31 But he said to him, ‘Child, you are always with me, and everything I have belongs to you.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:29 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Luke 15:31 Literally “all my things are yours”