Luke 15:17

"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!

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

18I will rise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you:

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Cross References

Luke 15:18I will rise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you:

Acts 2:37Stung to the heart by these words, they said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles, "Brethren, what are we to do?"

Acts 26:11In all the synagogues also I punished them many a time, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury I chased them even to foreign towns.

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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