Luke 15:17
And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him.
Cross References
Psalms 73:20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
Jeremiah 31:19For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth.
Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.
Luke 15:18I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee:
Acts 2:37Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their heart, and said to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren?
Acts 26:11And oftentimes punishing them, in every synagogue, I compelled them to blaspheme: and being yet more mad against them, I persecuted them even unto 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 →