Luke 15:29 meaning and explanation
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
Luke 15:29, Berean Standard Bible
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The older son is speaking to his father outside the house, refusing to join the welcome feast for his returned brother. His words are careful and wounded: he lists years of service and obedience, then contrasts a young goat, a modest gift, with the fattened calf killed for the son who wasted everything.
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