Luke 15:30

Luke 15:30

28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him.

29 So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’

31 “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.

32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad, ^afor your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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This thy son (o uiov sou outov). Contempt and sarcasm. He does not say: "This my brother."

Came (hlqen). He does not even say, came back or came home.

Devoured (katafagwn). We say, "eaten up," but the Greek has, "eaten down" (perfective use of kata-). Suggested by the feasting going on.

With harlots (meta pornwn). This may be true (verse Luke 15:13), but the elder son did not know it to be true. He may reflect what he would have done in like case.

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