Luke 15:17

And coming to himself, he said: How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

In Context

16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks which the swine ate; and no one gave to him.

18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him: Father, I sinned against heaven, and before thee.

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Cross References

Luke 15:18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him: Father, I sinned against heaven, and before thee.

Acts 2:37And hearing this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: Men, brethren, what shall we do?

Acts 26:11And punishing them often, throughout all the synagogues, I constrained them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them also 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 →

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