Luke 15:27
And he said to him: Thy brother is come; and thy father killed the fatted calf, because he received him back, safe and sound.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
26And calling to him one of the servants, he inquired what these things meant.
28And he was angry, and would not go in; and his father came out, and entreated him.
Cross References
Acts 9:17And Ananias went, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus who appeared to thee in the way thou camest, that thou mayest receive sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Philemon 1:16no longer as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more to thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord!
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 →