Luke 15:24
For my son was dead, and now he is alive. He was lost, and now he is found.' Then they began to celebrate.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
23Then bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us celebrate with a feast!
Cross References
Genesis 45:28Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Isaiah 66:11For you will nurse and be satisfied; with her breasts you will be comforted; 1 for you will drink them to the full and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 1
Ezekiel 34:4You have not strengthened those who have diseases, nor do you heal the ones who are ill. You do not bind up the ones who are broken, and you do not restore the outcasts or seek the lost. Instead, you rule over them through strength and violence.
Matthew 18:10See that you do not despise any of these little ones. For I say to you that in heaven their angels always look on the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Mark 8:22They came to Bethsaida. The people there brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
Luke 15:4“Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and then loses one of them, will not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the lost one 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 →