Luke 15:18 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:18

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

KJV

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

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Commentary

2 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

FESTAL LETTER 7 (373)

Then he shall get up, come to his father, and confess to him, "I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your hired servants."When he confesses like that, he will be considered worthy of more than that for which he prayed. His father neither takes him in like a hired servant nor treats him like a stranger. Oh no, he kisses him as a son. He accepts him as a dead man come back to life again.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Against heaven - Εις τον ουρανον; that is, against God. The Jews often make use of this periphrasis in order to avoid mentioning the name of God, which they have ever treated with the utmost reverence. But some contend that it should be translated, even unto heaven; a Hebraism for, I have sinned exceedingly - beyond all description.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀναστὰς	anastas	Having risen up	G450 →
πορεύσομαι	poreusomai	I will go	G4198 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πατέρα	patera	father	G3962 →
μου	mou	of mine	G3165 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐρῶ	erō	I will say	G4483 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	to him;	G846 →
πάτερ,	pater	Father,	G3962 →
ἥμαρτον	hēmarton	I have sinned	G264 →
εἰς	eis	against	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
οὐρανὸν	ouranon	heaven	G3772 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐνώπιόν	enōpion	before	G1799 →
σου·	sou	you;	G4771 →

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
Lamentations 3:40
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 13:5
  Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
- Psalms 139:23–24
  Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
- Joel 2:12–13
  “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
- Psalms 4:4
  Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
- Isaiah 55:7
  Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely…
Through
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
leads to
- 1 John 1:8–10
  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Ezra 9:6
  and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- 1 Timothy 1:15
  This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.