Luke 15:17
Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but I am starving to death!
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In Context
16He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
Cross References
Psalms 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
Jeremiah 31:19After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
Luke 15:18I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities 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 →