Luke 15:24
for here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.’ So they began making merry.
Open English Bible (US)
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 bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;
Cross References
Genesis 45:28and he, Israel, said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Matthew 18:10Beware of despising one of these little ones, for in heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Mark 8:22They came to Bethsaida. There some people brought a blind man to Jesus, and begged him to touch him.
Luke 15:4“Who among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep until he finds 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 →