“Meanwhile the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.
They’re like children sitting in the market and calling out to each other who say, “ ‘We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance. So we sang a funeral song, but you didn’t cry.’
because this son of mine was dead, but now he’s alive. He was lost, but now he has been found.’ So they began to celebrate.
So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on.