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Luke 15:21
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
LUKE 15:21 ui`o,j sou {A} While recognizing that several good manuscripts (a B D 700 _al_) combine to support the reading poi,hso,n me w`j e[na tw/n misqi,wn sou, the Committee thought it far more pr...
Verse Luke 15:21. _Make me as one of thy hired servants_, is _added_ here by several MSS. and versions; but it is evident this has been added, merely to make his conduct agree with his resolution, Lu...
CHAPTER 15 __ 1. The Murmuring Pharisees. (Luke 15:1) 2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:3) 3. The Parable of the Lost Coin. (Luke 15:8) 4. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Br...
LUKE 25. THREE PARABLES SHOWING GOD'S LOVE FOR THE LOST, AND HIS JOY AT THEIR RESTORATION. The three parables in this chapter have no definite note of time or place. An introduction is supplied from L...
THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
Jesus said, "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the part of the estate which falls to me.' So his father divided his living between them. Not ma...
I HAVE SINNED. I sinned. Confession _of_ sin is the necessary condition for receiving the blessing. Compare 2 Samuel 12:13.Psalms 32:5.Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 6:
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
_And the son said unto him_, _Father, I have sinned_ Rather, I SINNED. Like a true penitent he grieves not for what he has _lost_, but for what he has _done._Here again the language of David furnishes...
ΠΆΤΕΡ, ἭΜΑΡΤΟΝ. ‘_Father, I sinned_.’ There is a deeper accent in this ἥμαρτον than in that of Luke 15:18. Then he spoke in remorse for consequences; now in contrition for offences. Like a true penite...
THE SON LOST AND FOUND...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
Ver 17. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's 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...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Lost Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-24) 11 And he said, There was a man who had two sons; 12and the younger of them said to his father, -Father, give me the share of property t...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Parable of the Lost Son Scripture_ Luke 15:11-32 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 thy s...
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. AND THE SON SAID UNTO HIM, FATHER, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST HEAVEN, AND I...
13 Compare Job_21:14-15. 17 Compare Jer_31:18-20. 17 The first desire of the prodigal and of all awakened sinners is to do something themselves to ameliorate their evil condition. "What must I do to...
THE PRODIGAL SON (peculiar to Lk). 'This parable, like the two preceding, is intended to show what joy there is in heaven at the conversion of sinners, and, therefore, how wrong the Pharisees were to...
PARABLES OF THE LOST SHEEP, OF THEM LOST COIN, OF THE PRODIGAL SON 1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12. The first of a series of three parables for the encouragement of penitents. It...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *PARABLES OF GOD’S LOVE 15:1-32 1 INTRODUCTION 15:1-2 Jesus told three *parables as an answer to the *Pharisees. They did not approve of him beca...
FATHER, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST HEAVEN. — The iteration of the self-same words comes to us with a wonderful power and pathos. The contrite soul does not play with its contrition, or seek to vary its exp...
CHAPTER 21 LOST AND FOUND. IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe of humanity, sending the pulsations of new excitemen...
The son repeats his premeditated speech, with or without the last clause; probably with it, as part of a well-conned lesson, repeated half mechanically, yet not insincerely as if to say: I don't deser...
_Return and reception_. ἦλθεν, etc., he came to his father; no details about the journey, the fact simply stated, the interest now centring in the action of the father, exemplifying the joy of a paren...
_The third parable_, rather an example than a parable illustrating by an imaginary case the joy of recovering a _lost human being_. In this case care is taken to describe what loss means in the sphere...
THE SON WHO “CAME TO HIMSELF” AND TO HIS FATHER Luke 15:11-24 The pearl of parables! Too often we desire God's gifts apart from Himself. _The far country_ is not far in actual distance, but in the al...
Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the great discourse of this chapter, consisting of a threefold parable. In...
(4) And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. (4) In true repentance there is a consciousness of our sins, joined...
THE PRODIGAL SON Luke 15:11-32. “ _But He said_, _A certain man had two sons. The younger of them said to the father_, _Father_, _give me the portion of the estate which falleth to me. And he divided...
_The younger Son._ This first part of the parable embraces four representations corresponding to the four phases of the converted sinner's life: 1 _st._ Sin (Luke 15:11-13); 2 _d._ Misery (Luke 15:14-...
VERS. 20B-24. Free pardon, entire restoration, the joys of adoption, such are the contents of these verses. The heart of God overflows in the sayings of Jesus. Every word vibrates with emotion, at onc...
_The Child lost and found._ This parable consists of two distinct descriptions, which form the counterpart of one another, that of the younger son (Luke 15:11-24), and that of the elder son (Luke 15:2...
And he said, A certain man had two sons: 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. And not many days aft...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
21._Father, I have sinned against heaven. _Here is pointed out another branch of repentance, namely, such a conviction of sin as is accompanied by grief and shame. For he who is not grieved for having...
Having thus unfolded the difference in character between the two dispensations, and the circumstances of the transition from the one to the other, the Lord turns (chapter 15) to higher principles the...
AND THE SON SAID UNTO HIM, FATHER,.... Or "my father", as the Syriac version reads; and the Persic version adds, "pardon me": sin lay heavy on him, and he wanted a view and application of pardoning gr...
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. Ver. 21. _Father, I have sinned_] Confess, and the mends is made. _Homo...
Luke 15:21, 22. "And the father said to the servant, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet, and bring hither the fatted calf," etc. As Christ's...
_And the son said_ The perturbation which the aged parent was in, with ecstasy of joy, hindered him from speaking; so the poor, ragged, meager creature, locked in his arms, began and made his acknowle...
SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP (vs.3-7) Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would never choose a path of true discipleship if God did not seek him first. In this chapter we see t...
17-24 Having viewed the prodigal in his abject state of misery, we are next to consider his recovery from it. This begins by his coming to himself. That is a turning point in the sinner's conversion....
Now the good thoughts and resolutions of the sinner ripen into action, and the first of it is an expression of his convictions and humiliation by a humble confession of his sins, with their aggravatio...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II This son, when he repented, and returned to his father, and said, "I have sinned against Heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son...
Luke 15:21 And G1161 son G5207 said G2036 (G5627) him G846 Father G3962 sinned G264 (G5627) against...
MEN MUST LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN IN HIS GLORY (15:1-19:28). Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the city of David where He was proclaimed ‘Sav...
THREE PARABLES DEALING WITH THE SEEKING AND SAVING OF THE LOST (15:1-32). It will have been noted how great a concentration there is in this section on preparing for the eternal future, and on the Ki...
THE PARABLE OF THE LOVING FATHER, THE PRODIGAL SON AND THE DISSATISFIED BROTHER (15:11-32). When we come to the third parable there is a different emphasis in that the emphasis is laid, not on the see...
“And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, I am no more worthy to be called your son.' ” No doubt very moved the son began to explain why he had come. He ackno...
THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON. ‘The crown and pearl' of all our Lord's parables. It is an advance from the two which precede it. The case of the sinner is represented as more aggravated: his guilt g...
Luke 15:21. FATHER, etc. The purposed confession is made, but the conclusion is omitted. ‘The terms are the same, “I have sinned”; but how different is the accent! Luther felt it profoundly: the disco...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
The son made his speech of confession as planned, but it is not certain that he was able to finish as a number of early manuscripts do not have "Make me as one of the hired servants," though Aleph B D...
SINNED SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Luke 15:20 The Hunger of the Soul. I. Why did God make it so natural for us all to grieve over the past, and to lament so bitterly for sin? One way of looking at the matter may be suggestive to us al...
This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best exposition of it. The three parables recorded here set forth the wor...
Luke 15:11. _And he said, A certain man had two sons: 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. And not...
We have read this chapter together many times; possibly some of us have read it hundreds of times; yet whenever we read it, we always find something fresh in it. It is ever bright and sparkling, full...
Luke 15:1. _Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him._ However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; they recognized their Benefactor, so they gathered aroun...
CONTENTS: Parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes. CONCLUSION: God has a particular care over backsliding sinners (Isr. in this case) and follows th...
Luke 15:1. _Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him._ The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own righteousness, as to regard all such characters as excluded from the co...
WHEN HIS FATHER SAW HIM. Up to this point the parable tells a story that has happened many times in this world. Countless people have acted like this younger son. But the real difference in this parab...
_A certain man had two sons._ THE PRODIGAL AND HIS BROTHER I. GOD’S TREATMENT OF THE PENITENT. 1. The alienation of the heart from God. (1) Homelessness. (2) Worldly happiness is unsatisfying. Hu...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 15:21 The prodigal repeats his prepared speech (see vv. Luke 15:18). The father does not let him finish, however, showing that he has forgiven him....
CHAPTER 15 Ver. 1. _Then drew near under Him all the publicans and sinners_. _πάντες_, all, that is, many came together to hear Christ, attracted by His sanctity and by the loving-kindness with which...
_And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned_, &c. He desires, says the Interlinear, that to be done by grace, which he acknowledges himself to be unworthy of by any merit of his own. (See above...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 15:11. A CERTAIN MAN.—Our heavenly Father, since Christ never represents Himself thus. He always speaks of Himself as a Son, though often as a possessor, or lord. TWO SONS.—_I.e....
EXPOSITION LUKE 15:1 The _Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the _"lost," _in which he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful._ LUKE 15:1,...
Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them (Luke 15:1-2). Notice the four groups tha...
1 Corinthians 8:12; Ezekiel 16:63; Jeremiah 3:13; Luke 15:18; Luk
To be called thy son. He omits make me a servant. The slavish spirit vanishes in the clasp of the father's arms. Bengel suggest that the father would not suffer him to utter the news. I once heard Nor...
THE PRODIGAL SON Luke 15:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fifteenth chapter of Luke presents one parable with four outstanding messages, embracing one supreme thought. The supreme thought is Christ's answ...
CHRIST SEEKING TO SAVE Luke 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable. 1. WE HAVE THE SHEPHERD SUFFERING AS HE SEEKS HIS SHEEP. The parable describes...