Luke 15:28

And he was angry, and would not go in. Then his father went out and entreated him.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

In Context

27And he said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him in health.

29But he answered and said to his father, Behold, for so many years do I serve you, and never have I transgressed your commandment, and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.

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Cross References

Luke 5:30And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

Luke 13:34Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often have I desired to gather thy children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you refused.

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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