Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
When he had spent (dapanhsantov autou). Genitive absolute. The verb is here used in a bad sense as in James 4:3. See on dapanh Luke 14:28.
He (autov). Emphasis.
To be in want (ustereisqai). The verb is from usterov, behind or later (comparative). We use "fall behind" (Vincent) of one in straitened circumstances. Plummer notes the coincidences of Providence. The very land was in a famine when the boy had spent all.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 15:14:
Luke 15:11
James 4:3
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