Luke 15:19 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:19

I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

KJV

And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

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Commentary

3 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 Church Fathers1 voice

Basil of Caesarea

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (379)

There are three different distinct kinds of obedience. For either from fear of punishment we avoid evil and are servilely disposed; or looking to the gain of a reward we perform what is commanded, like to mercenaries; or we obey the law for the sake of good itself and our love to Him who gave it, and so savour of the mind of children.

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

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

No more worthy ... - “Such has been my conduct that I have been a disgrace to my father. I am not fit to be honored by being called the son of a man so kind and virtuous.” Make me as one ... - “Treat me as a servant. Let me come again into your family, but I do not ask to be treated as a son. I am willing to come in if you will give me only the support that you give to a servant.” This evinced, 1. Deep humility - such as a sinner should have.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὐκέτι	ouketi	no longer	G3756 →G2089 →
εἰμὶ	eimi	am I	G1510 →
ἄξιος	axios	worthy	G514 →
κληθῆναι	klēthēnai	to be called	G2564 →
υἱός	huios	son	G5207 →
σου.	sou	of you.	G4771 →
ποίησόν	poiēson	do make	G4160 →
με	me	me	G3165 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
ἕνα	hena	one	G1520 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
μισθίων	misthiōn	servants	G3407 →
σου.	sou	of 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
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
leads to
- James 4:10
  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
- Luke 14:11
  For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Proverbs 29:23
  A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
- Matthew 23:12
  For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
- Luke 18:14
  I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Through
Psalms 84:10
For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
leads to
- Psalms 27:4
  One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…
- Psalms 26:8–10
  O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
- Psalms 63:2
  So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.