There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them…gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country…. But when he came to himself he said…“I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.’”.… But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion and ran and embraced him…. But the father said…let us eat and make merry; for this my son was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:11–24 RSV