Luke 15:23 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:23

Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and bring the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and make merry:

KJV

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

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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

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition of the Gospel of Luke (397)

The Father rejoices "because my son was dead and has come to life again. He was lost and is found." "He who was, is lost." He, who was not, cannot be lost. The Gentiles are not, the Christian is, according as it is written above that, "God has chosen things that are not, that he might bring to nothing things that are." It is also possible to understand here the likeness of the human race in one man. Adam was, and we were all in him. Adam was lost, and all were lost in him.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Let us be merry - Both here, and wherever else this word occurs, whether in the Old or New Testament, it implies nothing of levity, but a solid, serious, religious, heartfelt joy: indeed this was the ordinary meaning of the word two hundred years ago, when our translation was made.

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)

Be merry - Literally, “eating, let us rejoice.” The word “merry” does not quite express the meaning of the Greek. “Merriment” denotes a light, playful, jovial mirth. The Greek denotes simply “joy - let us be happy, or joyful.”

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
φέρετε	pherete	do bring	G5342 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
μόσχον	moschon	calf	G3448 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
σιτευτόν,	siteuton	fattened,	G4618 →
θύσατε,	thusate	do kill [it],	G2380 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
φαγόντες	phagontes	having eaten	G5315 →
εὐφρανθῶμεν,	euphranthōmen	let us be merry,	G2165 →

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
Isaiah 25:6
On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
leads to
- Matthew 8:11
  I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
- Jeremiah 31:12–13
  They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and…
- Psalms 63:5
  My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
- Zechariah 9:16–17
  On that day the LORD their God will save them as the flock of His people; for like jewels in a crown they will sparkle over His land.
- Revelation 19:9
  Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
Through
Psalms 63:5
My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
leads to
- Psalms 36:7–9
  How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
- Isaiah 25:6
  On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
- Psalms 17:15
  As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.