Luke's parable of the prodigal son: a younger son took his inheritance while his father lived, spent it, came home, and the elder son objected

In Luke 15 Jesus tells of a man with two sons. The younger said, "give me the share of the property that will belong to me," and the father divided his assets between them. The son gathered everything, went to a distant country and wasted it. A famine came. He hired himself out to feed pigs and wanted to eat their pods. He decided to go home and ask to be treated as a hired hand. His father saw him far off, ran to him and kissed him. He ordered the best robe, a ring, sandals and the fatted calf. The elder son came in from the field, heard music and refused to go in. He said he had served for years and was never given even a young goat to celebrate with his friends, while this son, who had spent the family's property, got the fatted calf. The father answered, "Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours." Jewish writing of the period warned against exactly this division. Ben Sira advised never to hand over property to a son in your lifetime and to divide an inheritance only at the end. The Mishnah allowed a father to write property to his sons "from today and after my death," so that neither he nor the son could sell it outright. In the parable the younger son's share is gone, and what remains belongs to the elder son.