Luke 15:20
So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
19And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.
Cross References
Genesis 33:4Then Esau ranne to meete him, and embraced him, and fell on his necke, and kissed him, and they wept.
Genesis 46:29Then Ioseph made ready his charet and went vp to Goshen to meete Israel his father, and presented himselfe vnto him and fel on his necke, and wept vpon his necke a good while.
Job 33:27He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me,
Psalms 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a pitifull God and mercifull, slowe to anger and great in kindenes and trueth.
Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her childe, and not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe? though they should forget, yet wil I not forget thee.
Isaiah 57:18I haue seene his wayes, and wil heale him: I wil leade him also, and restore comfort vnto him, and to those that lament him.
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 →