Luke 15:17
But when the young son came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough food, and I am here, dying from hunger!
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16He would gladly have eaten the carob pods that the pigs ate, because no one gave him anything.
Cross References
Psalms 73:20They are like a dream after one wakes up; 2 Lord, when you arise, you will think nothing of those dreams. 1
Jeremiah 31:19For after I turned back to you, I was sorry; after I was trained, I slapped my thigh. 1 I was ashamed and humiliated, for I have borne the guilt of my youth.' 1
Ezekiel 18:28For he has seen and turned away from all the transgressions that he had done. He will surely live, and he will not die.
Luke 15:18I will leave here and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were pierced in their hearts, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 26:11I punished them many times in all the synagogues and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was furiously enraged against them and I persecuted 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 →