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| 1 Were and drawing near to him all the tax-gathers and the sinners, to hear him. |
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| 2 And murmured the Pharisees and the scribes, saying: That this sinners receives, and eats with them. |
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| 3 He said and to them the parable this, saying: |
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| 4 What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, not leaves behind the ninety-nine in the desert, and goes after that having been lost, till he may find it?
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| 5 And having found, he lays on the shoulders of himself rejoicing;
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| 6 and coming into the house he calls together the friends and the neighbors, saying to them: Rejoice with me, for I found the sheep of me that having been lost.
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| 7 I say to you, that thus joy will be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, than over ninety-nine just ones, who no need have of reformation.
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| 8 Or what woman, drachmas having ten, if she may lose drachma one, not lights a lamp, and sweeps the house, and seeks carefully, till she finds?
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| 9 And having found she calling together the friends and the neighbors, saying: Rejoice with me, for I found the drachma, which I lost.
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| 10 Thus, I say to you, joy produced in presence of the messengers of the God over one sinner reforming.
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| 11 He said and: A man certain had two sons.
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| 12 And said to younger of them to the father: O father, give to me the falling to part of the property. And he divided to them the living.
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| 13 And after not many days having gathered together all the younger son, went abroad into a country distant; and there wasted the property of himself, living dissolutely.
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| 14 Having expended and of him all, came a famine mighty throughout the country that; and he began to be in want.
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| 15 And having gone he united with one of the citizens of the country that; and he sent him into the fields of himself to feed swine.
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| 16 And he longed to fill the belly of himself from the pods, which were eating the swine; and no one gave to him.
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| 17 To himself and coming, he said: How many hired servants of the father of me have an abundance of bread? I and here with hunger am perishing.
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| 18 Having arisen I will go the father of me, and will say to him: O father, I sinned against the heaven and in presence of thee;
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| 19 no longer I am fit to be called a son of thee; make me as one of the hired servants of thee.
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| 20 And having arisen he went to the father of himself. While but of him at a distance being, saw him the father of him, and was moved with pity; and running he fell on the neck of him and repeatedly kissed him.
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| 21 Said and to him the son: O father, I sinned against the heaven and in presence of thee; and no longer I am fit to be called a son of thee.
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| 22 Said but the father to the slaves of himself: Bring you out the robe the chief, and clothe you him, and give you a finger-ring into the hand of him, and shoes for the feet.
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| 23 And having brought the calf the fatted do you sacrifice; and eating we may be joyful;
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| 24 for this the son of me dead was, and again alive; and having been lost he was, and is found. And they began to be merry.
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| 25 Was and the son of him the elder in a field; and as he was coming near to the house, he heard a sound of music and dancers.
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| 26 And having called to one of the servants, he inquired what may be these things?
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| 27 He and said to him: That the brother of thee is come; and has sacrificed the father of thee the calf the fatted, because safe him he received.
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| 28 He was angry and, and not was disposed to enter. The therefore father of him going out besought him.
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| 29 He and answering said to the father: Lo, so many years do I slave for thee, and never a command of thee I passed by; and to me never thou gavest a kid, that with the friends of me I might be joyful.
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| 30 When and the son of the this, the having devoured of thee the living with harlots, come, thou has sacrificed for him the calf the fatted.
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| 31 He and said to him: O child, thou always with me art, and all the mine thine is.
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| 32 To be joyful but and to be glad it is proper, for the brother of thee this dead was, and again is alive; and having been lost was, and is found.
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