It is based on the Biblical parable of the prodigal son.

And Marie also liked the parable of the prodigal son.

The father in the parable of the prodigal son divides his property between sons.

Remember how Paula said she liked the parable of the prodigal son?'

It derives from the parable of the prodigal son in the New Testament.

The story is a therapy-hazed variation of the parable of the prodigal son.

The play expresses an antipathy to religion, but also a strong concern with religious ideas, including the parable of the prodigal son.

The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance.

Also, like the parable of the prodigal son God forgives those who repent sincerely.

John again refers to the parable of the prodigal son; he is determined to bring Matthew home and keep track of him.

One accepted the parable of the Prodigal Son of course; salvation was possible for all.

Parable of the prodigal son in Gondi language, (Audio recording dated 1917)

Up to that point, Mr. Durst's life seemed a sanitized version of the parable of the prodigal son.

One may respond (in relation to the parable of the prodigal son) that one knows that today women may pass property to their daughters.

The top left and right hand panels depict the parable of the prodigal son tending pigs and being welcomed home by his father (Luke 15:11).

Anyone who distrusts the parable of the prodigal son for -being too simple and smug is likely to enjoy Arthur Pita's version.

First, he cites biblical texts which he takes to affirm "God's radical love" for humanity such as the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15).

By the end of that time, they no doubt imagined he would be glad enough to re-enact the parable of the prodigal son and start in some safer trade.

Set in the barn of a failing farm on the coast of New England, the story is a variation of the Bible's parable of the prodigal son.

And He told us the parable of the prodigal son, and the parable of the merchant who sold all his possessions that he might buy a pearl.

The book's narrator returns again and again to the parable of the prodigal son - the son who returned to his father and was forgiven, but did not deserve forgiveness.

"Absolute" is the nature of absolution, and the parable of the prodigal son might be summarized this way: A son behaves absolutely unforgivably; his father forgives him absolutely.

In Jesus' parable of the prodigal son, the father celebrates the son's return by commanding, "Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry."

Jeff Frazier, a church staff member in jeans and flannel shirt, pulled a stool into the spotlight and told the parable of the prodigal son, updating it for his largely affluent audience.

In a kind of contemporary retelling of the parable of the prodigal son, Atticus, an aging former rancher, enjoys a Christmas visit from his younger child, Scott, a dissolute painter.