Now his elder son was out in the field, and as he came near the house he heard music and dancing;
Like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not weep.'
for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.
so, summoning one of the servants, he asked what this meant.