Luke 15:24
For, this my son was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
In Context
23And bring forth and slay the fatted bullock; and let us eat, and be merry.
Cross References
Matthew 18:10See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That their angels in heaven, at all times, are beholding the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Mark 8:22And he came to Bethsaida: and they brought to him a blind man, and besought him to touch him.
Luke 15:4What man among you, that hath a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the desert, and go and seek for that which is lost, until he find it?
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 →