Luke 15:24
Because this my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry.
Cross References
Matthew 18:10Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Mark 8:22And they come to Bethsaida. And they bring to him a blind man, and beseech him to touch him.
Luke 15:4What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is 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 →