Luke 15:13 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:13

After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

KJV

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

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Commentary

6 voices

Basil of Caesarea

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (379)

(Esai. 3, 23.) Besides, it belongs more to the character of the aged to have an old man's mind and gravity, than his hoar hairs, nor is he blamed who is young in age, but it is the young in habits who lives according to his passions.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

For it follows, And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country. For what is more afar off than to depart from one's self, to be separate not by country but by habits. For he who severs himself from Christ is an exile from his country, and a citizen of this world. Fitly then does he waste his patrimony who departs from the Church. Now there came to pass in that country a famine not of food but of good works and virtues, which is the more wretched fast.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

He took a journey into a far country - Far from God: God was not in all his thoughts: And squandered away his substance - All the grace he had received.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They are sometimes ranked with harlots ( Matt. xxi. 32 ); here and elsewhere with sinners, such as were openly vicious, that traded with harlots, known rakes. Some think that the sinners here meant were heathen, and that Christ was now on the other side Jordan, or in Galilee of the Gentiles.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Gathered all together - Collected his property. If he had received flocks or grain, he sold them and converted them into money. As soon as this arrangement had been made he left his father’s house. Took his journey - Went, or traveled. Into a far country - A country far off from his father’s house. He went probably to trade or to seek his fortune, and in his wanderings came at last to this dissipated place, where his property was soon expended. Wasted his substance - Spent his property.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	after	G3326 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
πολλὰς	pollas	many	G4183 →
ἡμέρας	hēmeras	days	G2250 →
συναγαγὼν	sunagagōn	having gathered together	G4863 →
πάντα	panta	all [things]	G3956 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
νεώτερος	neōteros	younger	G3501 →
υἱὸς	huios	son	G5207 →
ἀπεδήμησεν	apedēmēsen	went away	G589 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
χώραν	chōran	a country	G5561 →
μακρὰν	makran	distant	G3117 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐκεῖ	ekei	there	G1563 →
διεσκόρπισεν	dieskorpisen	he wasted	G1287 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
οὐσίαν	ousian	estate	G3776 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
ζῶν	zōn	living	G2198 →
ἀσώτως.	asōtōs	prodigally.	G811 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
leads to
- Proverbs 23:21
  For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
- 1 Timothy 5:6
  But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
- 2 Timothy 3:4
  traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
- Proverbs 5:10–11
  lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
- Proverbs 21:20
  Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.
Through
Jeremiah 2:5
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
leads to
- 2 Kings 17:15
  They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding…
- Romans 1:21
  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
Through
Proverbs 29:3
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
leads to
- Proverbs 27:11
  Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.