Luke 15:28

And he was angry, and would not go in: and his father went out and entreated him.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

In Context

27And he said to him: Thy brother hath come; and thy father hath killed the fatted bullock, because he hath received him in health.

29And he said to his father: Lo, these many years have I labored in thy service, and never transgressed thy command; and thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.

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Cross References

Luke 5:30And the Scribes and Pharisees murmured, and said to his disciples: Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee; how many times would I have gathered thy children, as a hen that gathereth her young under her wings, and ye would not?

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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