Suggestions: Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.

Readers: 5 male voices. Read in a storytelling manner.

Key:
1 = young adult male
2 = boy in elementary school
3 = boy in junior high school
4 = boy in senior high school
5 = a dad

1: Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to [Jesus]. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them."

2: So he told them this parable:

3: Then Jesus said, "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.' So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his pr…