We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "
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.
Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious — as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.
Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;
the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!'
The father said to him, 'My son, you and I are always together, all I have is yours.
For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead!
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