26. He called one of the servants and asked what was going on.
27. The servant replied, ‘Your brother has arrived, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he received his son back safe and sound.’
28. Then the older son was furious and didn’t want to enter in, but his father came out and begged him.
29. He answered his father, ‘Look, I’ve served you all these years, and I never disobeyed your instruction. Yet you’ve never given me as much as a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.