Luke 15:17

"When he came to himself he said. "‘How many of my father’s hired men have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing of hunger!

Montgomery 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

16"And he was longing to be filled with the husks which the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

18"‘I will rise and go to my father, and say to him. "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight,

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Cross References

Luke 15:18"‘I will rise and go to my father, and say to him. "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight,

Acts 2:37When they heard these words they were stung to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles. "Men and brothers, what shall we do?"

Acts 26:11"In all the synagogues also I punished them oftentimes, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my mad fury I was pursuing them even to 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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