Collection 01 · Verdant · Mercy & Life
His Father Saw Him
He never gets to finish the speech he rehearsed.
“And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”
Luke 15:20 · King James Version, quoted verbatim
The Scene
The son has spent the inheritance, fed pigs for a living, and worked out a speech on the road home about being taken on as a hired servant. He gets about half of it out.
The father sees him while he is yet a great way off — which means the father had been watching that road — and then does the undignified thing and runs. The parable is usually named for the son. It is really about the man on the road.
- File
- One high-resolution portrait file, 300 DPI
- Sizing
- Clean at 8×10 and 11×14; holds at 16×20
- Delivery
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- License
- Personal use; the file may not be resold or redistributed
Source plate: Gustave Doré, Bible engravings (1866) — public domain, transformed under original creative direction. Treatment, composition, colour and typography by Watchman Forge. The display line is our own language; anything carrying a citation is quoted exactly.
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