Luke 15:24 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:24

For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

KJV

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

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Commentary

4 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 Medieval Church1 voice

Bede

On the Gospel of Luke (735)

And they began to celebrate. These feasts and festivities are now celebrated, extended and spread throughout the world by the Church. For indeed that calf is offered in the body and blood of the Lord, both to the Father, and it feeds the whole household.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

A sinner is not only dead in law, as he is under a sentence of death, but dead in state too, dead in trespasses and sins, destitute of spiritual life; no union with Christ, no spiritual senses exercised, no living to God, and therefore dead.

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)

Was dead - Lost to all good - given up to all evil. In this figurative sense the word is used by the best Greek writers. See many examples in Kypke.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅτι	hoti	For	G3754 →
οὗτος	houtos	this	G3778 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
υἱός	huios	son	G5207 →
μου	mou	of mine	G3165 →
νεκρὸς	nekros	dead	G3498 →
ἦν	ēn	was	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀνέζησεν,	anezēsen	is alive again,	G326 →
ἦν	ēn	he was	G1510 →
ἀπολωλὼς	apolōlōs	having been lost	G622 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
εὑρέθη.	heurethē	is found.	G2147 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἤρξαντο	ērxanto	they began	G757 →
εὐφραίνεσθαι.¶	euphrainesthai	to 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
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
leads to
- Ezekiel 34:16
  I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 15:4–7
  “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 1:21
  She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- 1 Timothy 1:13–16
  I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- Luke 5:31–32
  Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Through
Luke 15:4
“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
leads to
- Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Ephesians 2:5
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
leads to
- Romans 3:24
  and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Ephesians 2:8
  For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,