Luke 15:31 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:31

‘Son, you are always with me,’ the father said, ‘and all that is mine is yours.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that is mine is thine.

KJV

And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

⋯

Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

(ubi sup.) Or after having said, "This is boasting, not truth," the father does not agree with him, but restrains him in another way, saying, Thou art with me, by the law under which thou art bound; not as though he had not sinned, but because God continually drew him back by chastening. Nor is it wonderful that he lies to his father who hates his brother.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

As the father's receiving the younger son did not cause him to disinherit the elder; so God's receiving notorious sinners will be no loss to those who have always served him; neither will he raise these to a state of glory equal to that of those who have always served him, if they have, upon the whole, made a greater progress in inward as well as outward holiness.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, God is a kind Father to all his children, and gives to them all life, and breath, and all things, even to the evil and unthankful, dieilen autois ton bion -- He divided to them life. God's giving us life is putting us in a capacity to serve and glorify him.

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 Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

All I have is thine - The property was divided. What remained was in reality the older son’s. He was heir to it all, and had a right, if he chose, to use it. He had, therefore, no right to complain. This instructive and beautiful parable was designed to vindicate the conduct of Jesus to show that it was right to receive sinners, and that the conduct of the Pharisees was unreasonable. The older son represents the Pharisees; the younger, the returning sinner, whether Jew or Gentile; and the father, God, who is willing to receive them.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1858)

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὁ	Ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
εἶπεν	eipen	he said	G2036 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	to him;	G846 →
τέκνον,	teknon	Son,	G5043 →
σὺ	su	you yourself	G4771 →
πάντοτε	pantote	always	G3842 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	with	G3326 →
ἐμοῦ	emou	me	G1473 →
εἶ,	ei	are,	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πάντα	panta	all	G3956 →
τὰ	ta	that	G3588 →
ἐμὰ	ema	[is] mine	G1473 →
σά	sa	yours	G4771 →
ἐστιν.	estin	is.	G1510 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G5043teknonSon,99×

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
Romans 11:1
I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 11:22
  Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
- 1 Samuel 12:22
  Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.
- Jeremiah 33:24–26
  “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Philippians 3:5
  circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
- Acts 26:4
  Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from the earliest days of my youth, among my own people and in Jerusalem.
Through
Romans 9:4
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:12
  remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- Psalms 147:19
  He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
- Genesis 17:2
  I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”