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10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

The Parable of the Lost Son

11 Then 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 falls to me.’ So he divided to them ahis livelihood.  
13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with1 prodigal living.  
14 But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the1 pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.  
17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, aI have sinned against heaven and before you,  
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Luke 15:12

The portion (to merov). The Jewish law alloted one-half as much to the younger son as to the elder, that is to say one-third of the estate (Deuteronomy 21:17) at the death of the father. The father did not have to abdicate in favour of the sons, but "this very human parable here depicts the impatience of home restraints and the optimistic ambition of youth" (Ragg).

And he divided (o de dieilen). The second aorist active indicative of diairew, an old and common verb to part in two, cut asunder, divide, but in the N.T. only here and I Corinthians 12:11. The elder son got his share also of the "substance" or property or estate (thv ousiav), "the living" (ton bion) as in Mark 12:44, not "life" as in Luke 8:14.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 15:12:

Mark 14:72
Luke 15:11
Luke 15:18
Acts 11:3

 

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