Luke 15:15

Luke 15:15

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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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Joined himself (ekollhqh). First aorist passive of kollaw, an old verb to glue together, to cleave to. In the N.T. only the passive occurs. He was glued to, was joined to. It is not necessary to take this passive in the middle reflexive sense.

The citizens (twn politwn). Curiously enough this common word citizen (polithv from poliv, city) is found in the N.T. only in Luke's writings (Luke 15:15; Luke 19:14; Acts 21:39) except in Hebrews 8:11 where it is quoted from 38:34.

To feed swine (boskein xoirouv). A most degrading occupation for anyone and for a Jew an unspeakable degradation.

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

Luke 15:11
Luke 15:15
Acts 5:13
Acts 8:29
Acts 9:26
Hebrews 8:11

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