¹¹ Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:

¹¹ Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and take him with you; for he is of use to me in the work.

³² But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

¹⁰ In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.

¹² They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

¹ But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

² Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

³⁰ And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

²⁴ For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.