Luke 15:17
But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
16And he longed to fill his belly from the husks that the swine ate, and no man gave to him.
Cross References
Psalms 73:20As a dream from awakening, O LORD, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.
Jeremiah 31:19Surely after that I was turned back. I repented, and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
Ezekiel 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Luke 15:18After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.
Acts 2:37Now having heard this, they were pierced in the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, Men, brothers, what will we do?
Acts 26:11And punishing them often at all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being extraordinarily furious toward them, I persecuted them even as far as to outside cities.
Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32
The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →