speaking of him merely as “this son of yours” (v. 30). And it seems that he exaggerates or makes up information that he could not have known about the sins of his brother when he accuses him of squandering his father’s property “with prostitutes.” In short, the brother wants nothing to do with the prodigal. One of the reasons I chose the three stories of Bob, Johnny, and Marla, which I told at the beginning of this message, out of many more that I could have narrated involving prodigals was because