Luke 15:32
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad; because this thy brother was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
31And he said to him: Child, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
Cross References
Luke 7:34The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and ye say: Behold a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Romans 3:4Far be it! Yea, let God be true and every man a liar; as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words, And mayest overcome when thou art judged.
Romans 15:9and that the Gentiles should glorify God for his mercy; as it is written: For this cause I will give thee praise among Gentiles. And to thy name will sing.
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 →