"( song) We saved your place." "Welcome home." "We missed your face." "Welcome home." "It's so good to see you're back where you should be." "Welcome home, welcome home, welcome home." "You've come back to the light." "Welcome home." "We'll dance through the night." "Welcome home." "There's joy in our hearts, let the celebration start." "Welcome home, welcome home, welcome home." "Yesterday has faded; now it's in the past." "The sun is rising on a new day, and the day is ours at last." "We will walk together like we walked before, together ever more." "You were lost, now you're found." "Welcome home." "You've returned to safe ground." "Welcome home." "What was dead is alive;" "come and stay in our love." "Welcome home, welcome home, welcome home. ( end song)" "If one of you has an hundred sheep and loses one of them, don't you leave the ninety and nine and go after the missing one until you find it?" "Look at who this Jesus preaches to:" "tax collectors, thieves... all of them sinners." "But they listen and understand." "There is more to life than meaningless stories." "Besides, they are nothing but children's stories." "You would be wise to learn from them." "There was a man who had two sons, and the younger said to his father," ""Give me my share of the property..."" "Farming's a waste of time." "You work so hard all year, and if there's one bad storm, it's gone." "The future is always in the Lord's hands." "But I want it to be in my hands." "We've heard this all before." "Father, I want to go to the city." "In the city you can take your money and lend it out." "And then it comes back to you five times, ten times greater." "None of this hard work: plowing, and planting, and hoeing, and harvesting." "Wouldn't that be nice if we could all get rich without doing any work?" "I didn't say it was "no work," but it isn't hard work; it's smart work." "Oh, right!" "If you're so smart, why haven't you done it already?" "It takes money." "No, Jacob." "I don't belong on a farm, Father." "I belong in the city!" "Jacob, I'd give you anything I could, but I don't have money." "What I have is land, and sheep, and goats, and cattle." "Someday half of this will be yours, Jacob." "By then it'll be too late." "You build a fortune the way you build a wall... slowly, one stone at a time." "I wanna get rich now when I'm still young enough to enjoy it!" "Don't listen to him, Father!" "He wants you to sell half your land and give him the money." "Give me my chance in the city, Father." "I won't let you down!" "Jacob, will you ever give up?" "Not till I have my chance." "Oh, all right." "What?" "!" "You mean it, Father?" "!" "Yes Jacob, I mean it." "Ha, ha, ha!" "Oh, thank you!" "Thank you, Father!" "Your inheritance, Jacob, is yours to do with as you wish." "Hello, gold!" "You are my future." "You might feel rich now, but there is never as much money as you think." "Keep a careful accounting." "Every time you spend or invest a single coin write it down." "I'll do it, Father." "( dog barking)" "Don't worry, boy." "When I come back I'll be rich." "Goodbye!" "Half of Father's land... gone!" "Oh, Lord, please just bring him safely back to us." "I need some city clothes." "Come in!" "Come in!" "Come in!" "Oh, my, I shall fix you up!" "Oh my, my, my, yes!" "And now we need some of this!" "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" "And this!" "Oh!" "Oh no, wait, wait, wait!" "A little of this!" "Oh, it brings out your eyes!" "Oh, never, never have I seen such a handsome man!" "Excuse me, do you sell shoes?" "Shoes, shoes...." "I do have a few here." "My, what strange, I mean, unusual, I mean, lovely clothes." "Oh!" "Oh, thank you." "No, no, no, no, no!" "These will never do!" "Well, I..." "I've got just the shoes." "This way, please." "These are the perfect shoes." "What do you think, huh?" "Oh!" "Perfect!" "Oh, they're wonderful!" "Just three pieces of gold." "And that's a bargain!" "They're worth that and more!" "Come." "Come and see your future." "Ah!" "I see gold!" "Ah!" "I see great wealth!" "A long and happy life!" "I already knew that, but here's a coin anyway." "Hmm, maybe an orange." "Nah, maybe these." "No, maybe not." "Hmm!" "Ah, apples!" "Oh, thank you, but I'll just take two." "Please, sir, can't you help a cripple?" "I have nothing." "Here, all of you share this." "It's mine!" "Look out!" "Behind you!" "What's wrong, Anna?" "Ya!" "Help me!" "Hurry, jump!" "Welcome to the city, country boy." "I'm Fashid." "This is my sister, Anna." "Whoa!" "You saved my life!" "Ah, so that's what they were after." "It isn't safe to carry so much with you!" "I've just come to the city." "I'm going to become a money lender and make a fortune!" "That's a lot of money." "We... you could live on that for a long time." "Fashid, you're not going to have fun with his money." "He's going to invest it." "Well, not all of it." "I'd like to have a little fun." "Besides, if you want people to take you seriously, you'd better buy some new clothes." "I..." "I just bought these." "What's wrong with them?" "They're a little bright." "Repulsive!" "One good thing, though." "What?" "At least the beggars stole those ridiculous shoes!" "What do I do with these?" "Give it to some farmer who doesn't know any better." "Come on, sticks!" "Want to try your luck?" "Sure." "Again." "Sorry, you lose." "Great place, huh?" "Yeah." "Here, eat another leg." "This is the life!" "Yes!" "A toast!" "To wealth!" "( whistling and cat calls )" "(laughing)" "You're the best friend I have ever had, Jacob." "It's been a party every day for a month!" "Wait, I wanna get some flowers for Anna." "Keep the change." "Oh, I will never forget your generosity, most gracious sir." "(knocking)" "Come in." "Oh, Jacob." "Anna, I have something for you." "I can pick all the flowers I want from my father's garden." "I..." "I thought you liked me." "When you first came here you were so... so full of dreams." "And I'm still gonna make them come true." "No, you're just like my brother." "Silly, wasteful." "You're going to spend all your gold." "I have plenty of money left." "I have..." "I..." "I still have the other one." "Oh, Jacob!" "I can still invest this." "You'll see." "I'll be back." "Jacob!" "Jacob!" "Where have you been?" "I've been looking all over for you." "Not now!" "Hey, come on!" "It's gone, Fashid." "The gold is gone." "Do you understand?" "There is no more." "Gone?" "!" "Well I um,... hmm..." "guess I'll uh, see you around, Jacob." "You said I'd be rich." "You lied to me!" "What do you expect for one gold coin?" "But... but you said you'd never forget me." "I've never even seen you before!" "Please, I haven't eaten anything in two days!" "I'll work hard!" "Please, sir, a coin?" "Find your own place to beg!" "This is my lucky spot!" "I once got a gold coin here." "Now get away!" "Out!" "Help me." "I'm a cripple." "Help me." "Just one coin." "Oh, help me, sir." "You have so much." "Thank you." "That was for me!" "Give it to me!" "That's mine!" "You've got no right!" "Kill him!" "(knocking)" "Please, sir." "Huh?" "!" "You startled me!" "I'm starving, sir." "Please, give me some work, sir." "I really wish I could help you, boy, but haven't you heard, there's a famine?" "I hardly have enough to feed all my animals." "The only ones making any money these days are the money lenders." "Oh, please, sir, I will do anything." "Oh, my." "Oh, well I..." "well, I guess you can care for the pigs." "Clean up after them and feed them." "Then you can have whatever food you can find." "Oh, thank you, sir!" "What have I become?" "Even my father's servants eat better than this." "That's it!" "Yes!" "That's it!" "That's it!" "I'll go to my father and... and..." "and beg him to hire me as a servant!" "(barking)" "Jacob?" "Jacob?" "Jacob!" "Jacob, my son... my son, you're alive!" "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and I am not worthy to be your son." "But please, please hire me to be a servant." "Oh, never!" "Never Jacob!" "Ho!" "All of you!" "Everyone!" "Jacob is home!" "Bring out my best robe, and put it on my son." "Put a ring on his hand and shoes on is feet!" "And bring me the fatted calf, and kill it and roast it." "And let us eat and be merry!" "( music playing)" "For this, my son, was dead and is alive again!" "He was lost, and now he is found!" "What's going on here?" "Why all the music and the song?" "Your younger brother has returned." "Jacob." "Did he make his fortune?" "Oh, no!" "He lost it all." "What?" "!" "Nehemiah, come in and join the party." "All these years I've served you and never disobeyed you." "And in all those years you never gave me so much as a lamb, so I could make merry with my friends." "But as soon as Jacob came home" "Jacob, the one who wasted half your land, you killed the fatted calf for him!" "And I would have done as much for you." "Son, I have always loved you both." "And all I have left is yours." "But I would give up all that I ever had and be poor if it meant you and your brother were good and wise men." "It has taken much for Jacob to gain wisdom, but you, Nehemiah, you have always been wise." "Come, let's make merry, for your brother was dead, and he's alive again." "He was lost and now he's found." "These also are the sons and daughters of God, yet many of them have sinned." "But let me ask you, Pharisees, which of them do you think our Father in Heaven would turn away if they repent?" "This is ridiculous!" "How should we know?" "Then I will tell you." "The Lord will forgive them all." "If you had listened, you would have known too." "Well!"