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Luke 15:17

'And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

Young's Literal Translation

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 was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

18having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin — to the heaven, and before thee,

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Cross References

Psalms 73:20As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

Jeremiah 31:19For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.

Ezekiel 18:28And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

Luke 15:18having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin — to the heaven, and before thee,

Acts 2:37And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, 'What shall we do, men, brethren?'

Acts 26:11and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining [them] to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting [them] even unto strange 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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