Luke 15:17
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16And he longed to fill himself with the husks that the swine ate; and no one gave to him.
Cross References
Psalms 73:20As a dream when one awaketh, Thou, O Lord! when thou awakest, wilt make their vain show a derision.
Jeremiah 31:19Surely, after I returned, I repented, And after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, yea, I was confounded, Because I bore the reproach of my youth.”
Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Luke 15:18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee;
Acts 2:37And when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what must we do?
Acts 26:11And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.
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 →