Cheryl Schatz

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Where did you get this information?

I got the information from A critical and exegetical commentary on the Gospel According to Luke:

The (sandals) were marks of a freeman, for slaves went barefoot. None of the three things ordered are necessaries. The father is not merely supplying the wants of his son, who has returned in miserable and scanty clothing. He is doing him honour.
Plummer, A. (1896). A critical and exegetical commentary on the Gospel According to S. Luke (376).

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It is also amazing to me that many of today’s high profile church leaders are looking for people to serve them and to be paid a high figure for their “service”. They do not act as servants but rather as lords and masters who command respect and loyalty and their time is seldom given to the lowly sheep but to important other “servants”. It is such a contrast to the example that God himself set in His humility.