Luke 15:14 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:14

After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

KJV

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

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Commentary

6 voices

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 record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Bonaventure

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 15 (1257)

And after he had consumed all things, etc. After describing the insolence of the prodigal son, here he describes his misery and want, and this with respect to three things, namely with respect to the hardship of famine, with respect to the disgrace of servitude, …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

A sinful state is like a land where famine reigns, a mighty famine; for the heaven is as brass (the dews of God's favour and blessing are withheld, and we must needs want good things if God deny them to us), and the earth is as iron (the sinner's heart, that should bring forth good things, is dry and barren, and has no good in it).

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

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A mighty famine in that land - As he was of a profligate turn of mind himself, it is likely he sought out a place where riot and excess were the ruling characteristics of the inhabitants; and, as poverty is the sure consequence of prodigality, it is no wonder that famine preyed on the whole country.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Thus, like Jonah, whom the storm did not overtake till on the mighty deep at the mercy of the waves, does the sinner feel as if "the stars in their courses were fighting against" him (Jud 5:20). in want--the first stage of his bitter experience, and preparation for a change.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
δαπανήσαντος	dapanēsantos	When was spending	G1159 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	he	G846 →
πάντα	panta	everything	G3956 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	there arose	G1096 →
λιμὸς	limos	a famine	G3042 →
ἰσχυρὰ	ischura	severe	G2478 →
κατὰ	kata	throughout	G2596 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
χώραν	chōran	country	G5561 →
ἐκείνην,	ekeinēn	that,	G1565 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
αὐτὸς	autos	he himself	G846 →
ἤρξατο	ērxato	began	G757 →
ὑστερεῖσθαι.	hustereisthai	to be in need.	G5302 →

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
2 Chronicles 33:11
So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:36
  The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- 2 Chronicles 36:6
  Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
- Nehemiah 9:32
  So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders,…
- Job 36:8–11
  And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
- 1 Samuel 13:6
  Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
Through
Ezekiel 16:27
Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your…
leads to
- Isaiah 9:12
  Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Ezekiel 16:57
  before your wickedness was uncovered? Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you.
- Ezekiel 16:37
  therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you…