Luke 15:16

and he longed to make a hearty meal of the pods the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

In Context

15So he went and hired himself to one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him on to his farm to tend swine;

17"But on coming to himself he said, "`How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!

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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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