Luke 15:13

No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12The younger of them said to his father, "`Father, give me the share of the property that comes to me.' "So he divided his wealth between them.

14At last, when he had spent everything, there came a terrible famine throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch of want.

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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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