and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, for me
to enjoy myself with my friends;
015:030 but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up
your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat
calf for him.'
015:031 "`You my dear son,' said the father, `are always with me,
and all that is mine is also yours.
015:032 We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother
of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost
and has been found.'"
016:001 He said also to His disciples: "There was a rich man
who had a steward, about whom a report was brought to him,
that he was wasting his property.
016:002 He called him and said, "`What is this I hear about you?
Render an account of your stewardship, for I cannot let you
hold it any longer.'
016:003 "Then the steward said within himself, "`What am I to do?
For my master is taking away the stewardship from me.
I am not strong enough for field labour: to beg,
I should be ashamed.
016:004 I see what to do, in order that when I am discharged from
the stewardship they may give me a home in their own houses.'
016:005 "So he called all his master's debtors, one by one, and asked
the first, `How much are you in debt to my master?'
016:006 "`A hundred firkins of oil,' he replied. "`Here is your account,'
said the steward: `sit down quickly and change it
into fifty firkins.'
016:007 "To a second he said, "`And how much do you owe?' "`A hundred
quarters of wheat,' was the answer. "`Here is your account,'
said he: `change it into eighty quarters.'