Luke 15:20
And having risen, he went to his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell on his neck and kissed him;
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19and I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired workers.
Cross References
Genesis 33:4and Esau runs to meet him, and embraces him, and falls on his neck, and kisses him, and they weep;
Genesis 46:29and Joseph harnesses his chariot, and goes up to meet his father Israel, to Goshen, and appears to him, and falls on his neck, and weeps on his neck again;
Job 33:27[Then] he looks on men and says, || I sinned, and I have perverted uprightness, || And it has not been profitable to me.
Psalms 86:15And You, O Lord, [are] God, merciful and gracious, || Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.
Isaiah 49:15“Does a woman forget her suckling, || The loved one—the son of her womb? Indeed, these forget—but I do not forget you.
Isaiah 57:18I have seen his ways, and I heal him, indeed, I lead him, || And repay comforts to him and to his mourning ones.
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 →