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During a severe famine, he loses all means of support and ends up in desperate circumstances. The narrative explains why Jesus responds to criticism, illustrating repentance, loss, and restoration through the father’s mercy.","133 The Parable of the Lost Son  \nLuke 15:2-3, 11-32  \nEnglish Spiritual  \n133 The Parable of the Lost Son  \nEnglish  \n© 2020 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc.  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOriginal illustrations by Jim Padgett, © Sweet Publishing licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.  \n[www.sweetpublishing.com](www.sweetpublishing.com)  \nWycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. has skin darkened all of the Jim Padgett illustrations in our collection, and has modified some of them.  \nStory script © 2018 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nTemplate © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nMusic © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nA special thanks to the 50+ unnamed people who worked on the story scripts, templates, adapted illustrations and music.  \nThe Pharisees and the teachers of the law criticized Jesus. They said,“This man welcomes sinners and tax collectors. He even eats with them!”  \nSo Jesus told them this parable.  \n“There once was a man who had two sons. One day the younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me now the share of your property that would normally be given to me when you die.’So the father divided his property between his two sons.”  \n“A few days later, the younger son gathered together all that he owned and traveled to a country far away.”  \n“There in that country he spent all his money foolishly in wasteful, immoral living.”  \n“After he had spent all his money, there was a severe famine throughout that country. 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