Luke 15:17

And when he came to himself, he said: How many hired servants are now at my father's house, who have bread enough, and I am here perishing with hunger.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 longed to fill his belly with those pods which the swine ate: and no one gave to him.

18I will arise and go to my father, and say to him: My 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 say to him: My father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee;

Acts 2:37And when they heard these things, they were agitated in their heart; and they said to Simon and to the rest of the legates: Brethren, what shall we do?

Acts 26:11And in every synagogue I tortured them, while I pressed them to become revilers of the name of Jesus. And in the great wrath, with which I was filled against them, I also went to other cities to persecute them.

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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