Luke 15:24
because this son of mine was dead, and lived again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.
Literal Standard 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
23and having brought the fatted calf, kill [it], and having eaten, we may be merry,
Cross References
Genesis 45:28and Israel says, “Enough! My son Joseph [is] yet alive; I go and see him before I die.”
Isaiah 66:11So that you suckle, and have been satisfied, || From the breast of her consolations, || So that you wring out, and have delighted yourselves || From the abundance of her glory.”
Ezekiel 34:4You have not strengthened the weak, || And you have not healed the sick one, || And you have not bound up the broken, || And have not brought back the driven away, || And you have not sought the lost, || And you have ruled them with might and with rigor.
Matthew 18:10Beware! You may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their messengers in the heavens always behold the face of My Father who is in the heavens,
Mark 8:22And He comes to Bethsaida, and they bring to Him one blind, and call on Him that He may touch him,
Luke 15:4“What man of you having one hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, until he may find 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 →