What position does the younger son expect when he returns to his father’shouse? What does the father give him?
What will be an ideal response?
- Upon his return, the younger son’s greatest hope is that his father will deign to give him a job as a servant, but his father exceeds all his expectations.
It is essential to remember that this younger son had never experienced hunger under his father’s roof. The parable does not reveal what motivates him to ask for his inheritance prematurely, but the request would have been considered a sign of the greatest disrespect a son could give to his father; it would be like a son wishing his father were dead. Still, it seems that his father gives it over with little debate. As soon as the younger son squanders the inheritance, he “began to be in want” because “there arose a mighty famine in that land.” It is so bad that the only available food is the leftovers from the pigs—unclean animals in the Jewish tradition—that it is his job to tend. Only then does his epiphany come: “when he came to himself.” Knowing that the servants are never hungry at his father’s house, the younger son’s first motive to return is merely to fill his stomach. Whether or not his rehearsed words are sincere— “Father I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants”—may be in question. The father, however, accepts his contrition and welcomes him back into the family.
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