Luke 15:24
for this my son was dead, and he is alive; he was lost, and is found. And they began to rejoice.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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, kill the calf that is fat, and let us eat and be glad;
Cross References
Matthew 18:10See that you contemn not one of these little ones: for I say unto you that their angels in all time are beholding the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Mark 8:22And he came to Beth-tsaida; and they brought to him a blind man, and prayed of him to touch him.
Luke 15:4What man of you, who hath a hundred sheep, if he shall lose one from them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and, going, seeketh that which was lost until he shall have found 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 →