Bible Verses About Parables

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.” ’

So he got up and started back to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.

His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son — ’

but his father said to his slaves, ‘Quick, bring out a robe, the best one, and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet;

and bring the calf that has been fattened up, and kill it. Let’s eat and have a celebration!

For this son of mine was dead, but now he’s alive again! He was lost, but now he has been found!’ And they began celebrating.

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came close to the house, he heard music and dancing.

So he called one of the servants and asked, ‘What’s going on?’

The servant told him, ‘Your brother has come back, and your father has slaughtered the calf that was fattened up, because he has gotten him back safe and sound.’

But the older son became angry and refused to go inside. “So his father came out and pleaded with him.

‘Look,’ the son answered, ‘I have worked for you all these years, and I have never disobeyed your orders. But you have never even given me a young goat, so that I could celebrate with my friends.

Yet this son of yours comes, who squandered your property with prostitutes, and for him you slaughter the fattened calf!’

‘Son, you are always with me,’ said the father, ‘and everything I have is yours.

We had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead but has come back to life — he was lost but has been found.’”

Speaking to the talmidim, Yeshua said: “There was a wealthy man who employed a general manager. Charges were brought to him that his manager was squandering his resources.

So he summoned him and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in your accounts, for you can no longer be manager.’

“‘What am I to do?’ said the manager to himself. ‘My boss is firing me, I’m not strong enough to dig ditches, and I’m ashamed to go begging.

Aha! I know what I’ll do — something that will make people welcome me into their homes after I’ve lost my job here!’

“So, after making appointments with each of his employer’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my boss?’

‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied. ‘Take your note back,’ he told him. ‘Now, quickly! Sit down and write one for four hundred!’

To the next he said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your note back and write one for eight hundred.’

“And the employer of this dishonest manager applauded him for acting so shrewdly! For the worldly have more sekhel than those who have received the light — in dealing with their own kind of people!

“Once there was a rich man who used to dress in the most expensive clothing and spent his days in magnificent luxury.

At his gate had been laid a beggar named El‘azar who was covered with sores.

He would have been glad to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table; but instead, even the dogs would come and lick his sores.