Luke 15:12

Father, give me the portion that falleth to my share. And he divided his substance between them.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11And He said, a certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father,

13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together and went abroad into a distant country, and there squandered away his substance by living luxuriously.

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Cross References

Luke 15:30but as soon as this thy son was come, who hath eaten up thy substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

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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