Luke 15:17 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:17

Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

KJV

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!

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Commentary

2 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

He rightly returns to himself, because he departed from himself. For he who returns to God restores himself to himself, and he who departs from Christ rejects himself from himself.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

And coming to himself - For till then he was beside himself, as all men are, so long as they are without God in the world.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was his affliction; when he was in want, then he came to himself. Note, Afflictions, when they are sanctified by divine grace, prove happy means of turning sinners from the error of their ways. By them the ear is opened to discipline and the heart disposed to receive instructions; and they are sensible proofs both of the vanity of the world and of the mischievousness of sin.

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 Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

He came to himself - This is a very expressive phrase. It is commonly applied to one who has been “deranged,” and when he recovers we say he has “come to himself.” In this place it denotes that the folly of the young man was a kind of derangement - that he was insane. So it is of every sinner. Madness is in their hearts Ecc 9:3; they are estranged from God, and led, by the influence of evil passions, contrary to their better judgment and the decisions of a sound mind.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἰς	eis	To	G1519 →
ἑαυτὸν	he'auton	himself	G1438 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ἐλθὼν	elthōn	having come	G2064 →
ἔφη·	ephē	he was saying;	G5346 →
πόσοι	posoi	How many	G4214 →
μίσθιοι	misthioi	hired servants	G3407 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
πατρός	patros	father	G3962 →
μου	mou	of mine	G3165 →
περισσεύονται	perisseuontai	have abundance	G4052 →
ἄρτων,	artōn	of bread,	G740 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
λιμῷ	limō	with hunger	G3042 →
ὧδε	hōde	here	G5602 →
ἀπόλλυμαι.	apollumai	am perishing!	G622 →

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
Ephesians 5:14
So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
leads to
- Isaiah 60:1
  Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
- Romans 13:11–12
  And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
- Isaiah 26:19
  Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her…
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6
  So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
- Isaiah 52:1
  Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
Through
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:29
  If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Luke 15:17–18
  Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
- James 2:10–12
  Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.