寶寶小日記：つれづれなるままに．．．

The Prodigal Son
(失落的兒子)

Luke 15: 11-24
(路加福音 15: 11-24)

And he said, A certain man had two sons:
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 
And when he had spent all, there aorse a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.  
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called they son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
And he arose, and came to his fahter. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.


耶穌又說: "一個人有兩個兒子. 小兒子對父親說: '父親, 請你把我應得的家業分給我.' 他父親就把產業分給他們.
過了不多幾日, 小兒子就把他一切所有的都收拾起來, 往遠方去了. 在那裏任意放蕩, 浪費資財. 旣耗盡了一切所有的, 又遇著那地方大遭饑荒, 救窮苦了起來. 
於是去投靠那地方的一個人; 那人打發他到田裡去放豬.
他恨不得拿豬所吃的豆莢充飢, 也沒有人給他. 
他醒悟過來, 就說: "我父親有多少雇工, 口糧有餘, 我倒在這裡餓死嗎?
我要起來, 到我父親那裏去, 向他說: 父親! 我得罪了天, 又得罪了你; 
從今以後, 我不配稱為你的兒子, 把我當做一個雇工吧!"
於是起來, 往他父親那裏去. 相離還遠, 他父親看見, 就動了慈心, 跑去抱著他的頸項, 連連與他親嘴.
 兒子說: "父親! 我得罪了天, 又得罪了你; 從今以後, 我不配稱為你的兒子."
父親卻吩咐僕人說: "把那上好的袍子拿出來給他穿; 把戒指戴在他指頭上; 把鞋穿在他腳上; 把那肥牛犧牽來宰了, 我們可以吃喝快樂; 因為我兒子是死而復活, 失而又得的." 他們就快樂起來.