Luke 15:27
and he said to him — Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
26and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,
28'And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;
Cross References
Acts 9:17And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him [his] hands, said, 'Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me — Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming — that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.'
Philemon 1:16no more as a servant, but above a servant — a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!
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 →