Luke 15:17

But when he came to himself he said: ‘How many of my father's hired servants have an abundance of bread, while I am dying of hunger!

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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

16He would gladly have filled his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

18I will get up and go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

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Cross References

Luke 15:18I will get up and go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

Acts 2:37Now upon hearing this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter, and the rest of the Apostles, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?!”

Acts 26:11Yes, I punished them often in every synagogue, trying to force them to blaspheme; I was so excessively enraged against them that I persecuted them even to 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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