Luke 15:11-24

Bishops(i) 11 And he sayde. A certayne man had two sonnes 12 And the younger of them sayde to his father: father, geue me the portion of the goodes, that to me belongeth. And he deuided vnto them his substaunce 13 And not long after, when the younger sonne had gathered all that he had together, he toke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there wasted his goodes with riotous lyuyng 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a great dearth in all that lande, and he began to lacke 15 And he ioyned hym selfe to a citizen of that countrey: and he sent hym to his farme, to feede swyne 16 And he woulde fayne haue fylled his belly with the coddes that the swyne dyd eate: and no man gaue vnto hym 17 Then he came to hym selfe, and sayde: Howe many hyred seruauntes at my fathers house haue bread inough, and I perishe with hunger 18 I wyll aryse, and go to my father, and wyll say vnto hym: Father, I haue sinned agaynst heauen, and before thee 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne, make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way of, his father sawe him, & had compassion, and ranne, and fell on his necke, and kissed hym 21 And the sonne sayde vnto him: Father, I haue sinned agaynst heauen, and in thy syght, and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne 22 But the father saide to his seruauntes: bryng foorth the best garment, and put it on hym, and put a ryng on his hande, and shoes on his feete 23 And bryng [hyther] that fat calfe, and kyll it, and let vs eate and be mery 24 For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue agayne, he was lost, and is founde. And they began to be mery