Luke 15:13-20

¹³And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate in wild living. ¹⁴Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began doing without. ¹⁵So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ¹⁶And he longed to have his fill of the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving him anything. ¹⁷But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired laborers have more than enough bread, but I am dying here from hunger! ¹⁸I will set out and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight; ¹⁹I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired laborers.” ’ ²⁰So he set out and came to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.