Luke 15:20
And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Cross References
Genesis 33:4And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.
Genesis 46:29Then Joseph yoked his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and he presented himself to him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Job 33:27He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;
Psalms 86:15But thou, Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.
Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee.
Isaiah 57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him; and I will lead him, and will restore comforts unto him and to those of his that mourn.
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 →