Luke 15
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Luke 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well a
The Latin text of Luke 14:30–19:7 in Codex Gigas (13th century)
In this parable, a woman sweeps her dark house looking for a lost coin (engraving by John Everett Millais).
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni
Parable of the Prodigal Son
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The parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32. In Luke 15, Jesus tells this story, along with those of a man with 100 sheep and a woman with
Luke 15
…tradition was evenly divided at the end of the 20th century. This chapter records three parables of Jesus Christ: the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost or 'prodigal' son, a trilogy about redemption that Jesus tells after the Pharisees and religious leaders accuse him of welcoming and eating with "sinners". All three…
James Tissot – The Return of the Prodigal Son (Le retour de l'enfant prodigue) – Brooklyn Museum
Engraving of the Prodigal Son as a swineherd by Hans Sebald Beham, 1538
Stained glass window based on the parable, Charleston, South Carolina