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OET (OET-LV) Because this the son of_me was dead and revived, was having_been_lost and was_found.
And they_began to_be_being_gladdened.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
ὅτι οὗτος ὁ υἱός μου νεκρὸς ἦν καὶ ἀνέζησεν, ἦν ἀπολωλὼς καὶ εὑρέθη
because this ¬the son ˱of˲_me dead was and revived was /having_been/_lost and /was/_found
If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this so that it is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “The father said that it was as if his son had died and come back to life, as if he had lost him and found him again”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ὁ υἱός μου νεκρὸς ἦν καὶ ἀνέζησεν
¬the son ˱of˲_me dead was and revived
The father says that when his son was in the faraway country, it was as if he was dead. You could translate this as a simile or comparison if your readers might otherwise take the father’s statement to mean that the son actually had died. Alternate translation: “it was as if my son had died, but now I see he is very much alive”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἦν ἀπολωλὼς καὶ εὑρέθη
was was /having_been/_lost and /was/_found
The father says that when his son was in faraway country, it was as if he was lost and no one knew where to find him. You could translate this as a simile or comparison if your readers might otherwise take the father’s statement to mean that the son actually had been missing. Alternate translation: “it was as if my son was missing, but now I have found him again”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
εὑρέθη
/was/_found
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form, and you could state who has done the action. Alternate translation: “I have found him again”
Note 5 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
καὶ ἤρξαντο εὐφραίνεσθαι
and and and ˱they˲_began /to_be_being/_gladdened
Then introduces the results of what the previous sentence described. The servants carried out the father’s orders and prepared a feast, and the people in the household then began to enjoy it.
15:1-32 Chapter 15 contains three related parables of things lost and found: a sheep (15:1-7), a coin (15:8-10), and a son (15:11-32). The loss of something loved causes deep sorrow, whereas finding it brings great joy. There is great rejoicing in heaven when lost sinners return to their heavenly Father.
OET (OET-LV) Because this the son of_me was dead and revived, was having_been_lost and was_found.
And they_began to_be_being_gladdened.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.