Luke 15:20
And rising up he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and running to him fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Cross References
Genesis 33:4Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.
Genesis 46:29And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet his father, in the same place: and seeing him, he fell upon his neck, and embracing him wept.
Job 33:27He shall look upon men, and shall say : I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.
Psalms 86:15And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true.
Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.
Isaiah 57:18I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.
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 →