welcome for the prodigal, and refuses to join in the welcome in angry indignation, because he views the comparison between the younger son’s conduct and his welcome as flagrantly unjust to him. Of the elder son Funk writes: “He refuses to be identified as a sinner because he is righteous and has no need of the grace of God. The word of grace and the deed of grace divide the audience into younger sons and elder sons—into sinners and Pharisees. This is what Ernst Fuchs means when he says that one does