Luke 15:17
When he came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘All of my father's workers have more than enough to eat—why am I dying from hunger here?
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16He was so hungry that he would have eaten even the pig food, but no one gave him anything.
18I'm going home to my father! I'll tell him: Father, I've sinned against heaven and against you.
Cross References
Psalms 73:20Like waking up from a dream, Lord—when you get up you will forget all about them!
Jeremiah 31:19When I came back to you I was sorry, and once I understood, I held my head in sadness. I was ashamed and I blushed, embarrassed at what I'd done when I was young.”
Ezekiel 18:28Because they thought about it and gave up their wicked ways, they will certainly live—they won't die.
Luke 15:18I'm going home to my father! I'll tell him: Father, I've sinned against heaven and against you.
Acts 2:37When the people heard this they were conscience-stricken. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”
Acts 26:11I had them punished in all the synagogues, trying to make them recant. I was so furiously opposed to them that I went to cities outside our country to persecute them.
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 →