Luke 15:17

Then coming to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father abound with loaves of bread, and I am pining away with famine!

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 eagerly longed to fill his belly with the charob berries which the swine did eat: and no person gave him a morsel.

18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

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Cross References

Luke 15:18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

Acts 26:11And in every synagogue oftentimes punishing them, I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly maddened with rage against them, I persecuted them even to the cities that are without.

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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