²⁷ The servant^[a] told him, ‘Your brother has come home, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got him back safely.’

²⁸ “Then the older son^[b] became angry and wouldn’t go into the house.^[c] So his father came out and began to plead with him. ²⁹ But he answered his father, ‘Listen! All these years I’ve worked like a slave for you. I’ve never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you’ve never given me so much as a young goat for a festival^[d] so I could celebrate with my friends.