Luke 15:17

and having come to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread in abundance, but here I perish with hunger!

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

In Context

16and he was desiring to fill his stomach from the pods, which the swine were eating: and no one gave unto him:

18Having risen I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

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Cross References

Luke 15:18Having risen I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

Acts 2:37And hearing, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, Men, brethren, what must we do?

Acts 26:11and throughout all the synagogues, frequently punishing them, I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceeding mad against them, I was persecuting them even also unto 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 →

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