Luke 15:27
And he said to him: Thy brother hath come; and thy father hath killed the fatted bullock, because he hath received him in health.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
26And he called to one of the boys, and asked him what it meant.
28And he was angry, and would not go in: and his father went out and entreated him.
Cross References
Acts 9:17Then Ananias went to the house to him; and he laid his hand upon him, and said to him: Saul, my brother, our Lord Jesus, he who appeared to thee by the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thy eyes might be opened, and thou be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Philemon 1:16henceforth, not as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother dear to me, and much more to thee, both in the flesh and in our Lord?
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 →