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Why the Father Ran
REBINDYou've heard the Prodigal Son a hundred times. But you've never heard what the father running actually meant. In the ancient world, a man of honor never ran. Here's renowned Biblical scholar Joel Green.
JOEL GREEN · SENIOR PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT, FULLER SEMINARYA wealthy landowner running down the street of his village is itself extraordinary. These outlandish behaviors should be traced back to their source — compassion. The son had rehearsed a speech begging to be taken back as a hired servant. But the father never let him finish. Before the son could get the words out, the father had already launched a full restoration to the family he had snubbed and abandoned.
LUKE 15:20“But while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”
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