Luke 15:24
For this son of mine was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to feast.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
In Context
23And bring the fatted calf here, and kill it. And let us eat and hold a feast.
Cross References
Genesis 45:28and he said: “It is enough for me, if my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Isaiah 66:11So may you nurse and be filled, from the breasts of her consolations. So may you receive milk and overflow with delights, from every portion of her glory.
Ezekiel 34:4What was weak, you have not strengthened, and what was sick, you have not healed. What was broken, you have not bound, and what was cast aside, you have not led back again, and what was lost, you have not sought. Instead, you ruled over them with severity and with power.
Matthew 18:10See to it that you do not despise even one of these little ones. For I say to you, that their Angels in heaven continually look upon the face of my Father, who is in heaven.
Mark 8:22And they went to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind man to him. And they petitioned him, so that he would touch him.
Luke 15:4“What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it?
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 →