Luke 15:17

But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger!

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

In Context

16And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods which the swine did eat. And no one gave to him.

18I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight,

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Cross References

Luke 15:18I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight,

Acts 2:37When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles: Brethren, what shall we do?

Acts 26:11And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to speak impiously; and, being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign 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 →

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