Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
“Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
Parables are simple stories to explain complex ideas – that’s why Jesus told them. He knows that we need simple stories to understand the complexities of things like God’s grace. One of Jesus’ best known parables is about the Prodigal…
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Parables are simple stories to explain complex ideas – that’s why Jesus told them. He knows that we need simple stories to understand the complexities of things like God’s grace. One of Jesus’ best known parables is about the Prodigal…
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