26. “And having called one of the servants he asked what this meant.
27. “And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he received him back in health.’
28. “And he was wroth and would not go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
29. “And answering, he said to his father, ‘See, these many years I have been serving you, and I have never transgressed a command of yours, but to me you have never given a young goat, so I could rejoice with my friends.