I’ve seen the term “prodigal son” used in other ways before, but it’s pretty much always “the prodigal son returns”. I’ve tried to Google it before and that has only confused me more honestly.
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It’s a famous story in the Bible.
Jesus tells about a man who had two sons. One asked for his half of the inheritance early. He went out and wasted all the money (“prodigal” refers to this, also “profligate”). He was living in a foreign land and doing the worst, most humiliating jobs just to survive.
Eventually, he finds his way back home. He begs to be hired by his father as a servant. Instead of hiring him as a servant, his father is overjoyed and throws a big party to celebrate his return.
His brother asks why their father is spending so much on celebrating someone who wasted everything and not on him even though he always did the right thing. Their father explains that it’s because he never lost this son (and besides, he still has hus share of the inheritance coming), while with his other son being off so far away, it was like he was dead, and now has returned.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2015%3A11-32&version=ESV
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