World English Bible
Luke 15:28
“But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.”
Verse in context — Luke 15
26
He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
27
He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.
28
But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.
29
But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
30
But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.
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