Luke 15:17

But, when he came to himself, he said ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

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In The King James Version

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 with hunger!

In Context

16He even longed to satisfy his hunger with the bean-pods on which the pigs were feeding; and no one gave him anything.

18I will get up and go to my father, and say to him “Father, I sinned against heaven and against you;

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Cross References

Psalms 73:20Like a dream, when one wakes, shall they be, whose phantoms the waker despises.

Luke 15:18I will get up and go to my father, and say to him “Father, I sinned against heaven and against you;

Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were conscience-smitten, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Friends, what can we do?”

Acts 26:11Time after time, in every synagogue, I tried by punishments to force them to blaspheme. So frantic was I against them, that I pursued them even to towns beyond our borders.

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 →

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