Luke 15:11-16

International Standard Version

The Story of the Loving Father

¹¹ Then Jesus^[a] said, “A man had two sons. ¹² The younger one told his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So the father^[b] divided his property between them. ¹³ A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all^[c] on wild living. ¹⁴ After he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need. ¹⁵ So he went out to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ¹⁶ No one would give him anything, even though he would gladly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating.