Luke 15:32 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:32

But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

KJV

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

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Commentary

1 voice

Bonaventure

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 15 (1257)

He also placates by approving the mercy bestowed, when he adds: But it was fitting to feast and rejoice, namely because charity urges it, for it is charity that compels one to rejoice over what is good. Whence the Apostle, Second Corinthians five: "Whether we …

The record, by era

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 Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

This thy brother - Or, This brother of Thine. To awaken this ill-natured, angry, inhumane man to a proper sense of his duty, both to his parent and brother, this amiable father returns him his own unkind words, but in a widely different spirit.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

These verses form the conclusion of the parable of the prodigal son. They are far less well known than the verses which go before them. But they were spoken by the same lips which described the younger son's return to his father's house. Like everything which those lips spoke — they will be found deeply profitable. We are taught, firstly, in this passage — how unkind and mean-spirited are the feelings of self-righteous men towards sinners. This is a lesson which our Lord conveys to us by describing the conduct of the "elder brother" of the prodigal son.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εὐφρανθῆναι	euphranthēnai	To make merry	G2165 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
χαρῆναι	charēnai	to rejoice	G5463 →
ἔδει,	edei	it was fitting,	G1163 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἀδελφός	adelphos	brother	G80 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
οὗτος	houtos	this	G3778 →
νεκρὸς	nekros	dead	G3498 →
ἦν	ēn	was	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἔζησεν,	ezēsen	is alive ,	G2198 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπολωλὼς	apolōlōs	having been lost	G622 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
εὑρέθη.¶	heurethē	is found.	G2147 →

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
Romans 3:4
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
leads to
- Psalms 51:4
  Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
- Psalms 116:11
  In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
- Galatians 2:17
  But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!
Through
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.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:5
  made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
- 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.’
- Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- Colossians 2:13
  When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
- 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…