Luke 15:16

And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

In Context

15And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.

17But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

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Cross References

Job 30:4They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Psalms 142:4\142:3\When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

Isaiah 55:2Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Lamentations 4:5Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

Jonah 2:2\2:1\Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,

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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