Luke 15:12

and his minor son said to him, My father, give to me my division of the goods of thy house. And he divided to them his substance.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11AND Jeshu said to them again, A certain man had two sons;

13And after a few days the minor son gathered together his all whatsoever, and went into a distant country, and there dispersed his substance in living profusely.

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Cross References

Luke 15:30But this thy son, when he hath wasted thy substance with harlots, and hath come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

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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