Luke 15:24
because this is my son who was dead, but who has returned alive; he was lost but now he's found.’ So they started celebrating.
Free Bible Version
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
23Bring the calf we've been fattening and kill it. Let's have a feast to celebrate
Cross References
Genesis 45:28Israel said, “All right, I believe you! My son Joseph is still alive! I'm going to go and see him before I die.”
Isaiah 66:11Like a baby you can nurse at her breasts that bring comfort, drinking deeply and being satisfied by all she has to give.
Ezekiel 34:4You haven't taken care of the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought home the strays, or looked for the lost. On the contrary, you ruled them using violence and cruelty.
Matthew 18:10Make sure you don't look down on these little ones. I tell you that in heaven their angels are always with my heavenly Father.
Mark 8:22They went to Bethsaida where some people brought a blind man to Jesus. They begged Jesus to touch him and heal him.
Luke 15:4“Imagine a man who had a hundred sheep lost one of them. Wouldn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture, and search for the one that's 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 →