Luke 15:17

And when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Revised King James 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

16And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods the swine were eating: but no man gave him anything.

18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight,

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Cross References

Luke 15:18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight,

Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were pricked to the heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?

Acts 26:11And I punished them often in every synagogue, and tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged against them, I persecuted them even in 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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