Luke 15:17
And returning to his senses, he said: ‘How many hired hands in my father’s house have abundant bread, while I perish here in famine!
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In Context
16And he wanted to fill his belly with the scraps that the swine ate. But no one would give it to him.
Cross References
Psalms 73:20Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.
Jeremiah 31:19For after you converted me, I did penance. And after you revealed to me, I struck my thigh. I am confounded and ashamed. For I have endured the disgrace of my youth.’
Ezekiel 18:28For by considering and turning himself away from all his iniquities, which he has worked, he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.
Luke 15:18I shall rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
Acts 2:37Now when they had heard these things, they were contrite in heart, and they said to Peter and to the other Apostles: “What should we do, noble brothers?”
Acts 26:11And in every synagogue, frequently while punishing them, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being all the more maddened 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 →