Prodigal son in the bible

Answer 1

The parable of the Prodigal Son can be found in the Gospel of Luke chapter 15. The parable is one of three Jesus told in reply to the Pharisees and scribes when they complained saying ........"This Man receives sinners and eats with them." Luke 15:2.

The father in the parable represents God. The prodigal/youngest son represents Israel and the oldest son represents the Pharisees and the scribes.

Answer 2

A Leopard's WeightAfricaThe weight of an adult male leopard is 135 lbs on average inSouthern Africa (Kruger National Park, Sabi Sands Game Reserve etc.where the maximum recorded weights are 200 lbs), They are muchsmaller in the mountains of the Cape Provinces where they weighonly 70lbs. Variation in size occurs throughout it's African rangedue to environmental factors.AsiaThe Persian leopard (P.p. saxicolor) is the largestsubspecies weighing 155 lbs on average.The Amur leopard (P.p. orientalis) and North Chinese leopard(P.p. japonensis) are not as large averaging 110 lbs.The Sri Lankan leopard (P.p. kotiya) weigh 128 lbs onaverage.The Indian leopard (P.p. fusca) weigh 120 lbs on average.The Arabian leopard (P.p. nimr) are the smallest at only 70lbs.

Answer 3

It is a parable in the gospel of Luke of a rich boy who wastes his fathers money and then repents and comes home, and his father welcomes him,please note there was a famine and he ate with the swine what they ate, he was a Jew and Jews never went near swine. It shows if we repent from our sins god will take us back with open hands.

Answer 4

As both the prodigal son and the father are both fictional, they had no real names. However, the father is symbolic of God.

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The Prodigal Son is a parable of the New Testament; its a story that is fictional but with a meaning.

Answer 5

AnswerThe parable of the prodigal son is all about gentiles [or non-israelites] and sinners being accepted by God the Father while the self-righteous Scribes and Pharisees were not. There are 3 people in the Parable: the younger prodigal son, his older brother, and their father. Their representation is as follows:-

The father represents God the Father.

The youngest son represents sinners, outcasts, and gentiles (people from outside the nation of Israel) who were all to be part of the Father's Kingdom.

The oldest son represents the Scribes and the Pharisees. He served his father not out of love, but out of desire for reward: he saw himself in bondage to his father (God the Father). Jesus taught the 2 great Commandments: love God and love your neighbour, but the older son did not love God (the Father), and did not love his younger brother.

The Scribes and Pharisees absolutely hated who and what the younger son represented. They would have known very well that the oldest son represented them.

Luke 15:1-3, 11-->

1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,

11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

After all, the Scribes and the Pharisees were the 'bad guys' in many other parables, such as the murderous Vineyard tenants:-

Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: ...

Luke 20

19 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

Answer 6

The name of the prodigal son is not mentioned in the book of Luke. It is also called the lost son.

Answer 7

chacterize the prodgial son

Answer:

Plain old everyday carnal minded human nature.

Answer 8

In the parable of the prodigal son , the names of the brothers as well as of the father are not given.