LUKE 15:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:”
But he answered his father, look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends — all these years slaving (douleuō, serving as a slave): the older son's self-description is the slavish obedience without relationship. Never disobeyed: the rule-keeping that replaced relationship. You never gave me even a young goat: the contrast between his claim of deprivation and the fattened-calf celebration for his brother.
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