Luke 15

1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.Cross-references: Ezek 18:27 · Matt 9:10 · Matt 21:28 · Luke 5:29 · Luke 7:29 · Luke 13:30 · +2 more

2The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”Cross-references: Matt 9:11 · Luke 5:30 · Luke 7:34 · Luke 7:39 · Luke 15:29 · Luke 19:7 · +3 more

3He told them this parable:

4“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?Cross-references: Ps 119:176 · Isa 53:6 · Jer 50:6 · Ezek 34:8 · Ezek 34:11 · Ezek 34:16 · +9 more

5When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.Cross-references: Isa 40:10 · Isa 46:3 · Isa 53:10 · Isa 62:5 · Isa 62:12 · Isa 63:9 · +23 more

6When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’Cross-references: Ps 119:176 · Isa 66:10 · Luke 2:13 · Luke 15:7 · Luke 15:10 · Luke 15:24 · +11 more

7I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.Cross-references: Prov 30:12 · Matt 18:13 · Luke 5:32 · Luke 15:10 · Luke 15:29 · Luke 15:32 · +4 more

8“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?Cross-references: Ezek 34:12 · Luke 19:10 · John 10:16 · John 11:52 · Eph 2:17

9When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost!’Cross-references: Luke 15:6

10Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”Cross-references: 2Chr 33:13 · Ezek 18:23 · Ezek 18:32 · Ezek 33:11 · Matt 18:10 · Matt 18:14 · +12 more

11He said, “A certain man had two sons.Cross-references: Matt 21:23

12The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.Cross-references: Deut 21:16 · Ps 16:5 · Ps 17:14 · Mark 12:44 · Luke 15:30

13Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:1 · Job 21:13 · Job 22:17 · Ps 10:4 · Ps 73:27 · Prov 5:8 · +27 more

14When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:11 · Ezek 16:27 · Hos 2:9 · Amos 8:9

15He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · 2Chr 28:22 · Isa 1:5 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 57:17 · Jer 5:3 · +18 more

16He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.Cross-references: Ps 73:22 · Ps 142:4 · Isa 44:20 · Isa 55:2 · Isa 57:3 · Lam 4:5 · +3 more

17But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!Cross-references: Ps 73:20 · Eccl 9:3 · Jer 31:19 · Lam 1:7 · Ezek 18:28 · Luke 8:35 · +9 more

18I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · 1Ki 8:47 · 1Ki 20:30 · 2Ki 7:3 · 2Chr 33:12 · 2Chr 33:19 · +28 more

19I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’Cross-references: Gen 32:10 · Josh 9:24 · Job 42:6 · Ps 84:10 · Matt 15:26 · Luke 5:8 · +5 more

20“He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him.Cross-references: Gen 33:4 · Gen 45:14 · Gen 46:29 · Deut 30:2 · Job 33:27 · Ps 86:5 · +13 more

21The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’Cross-references: Ps 51:4 · Ps 143:2 · Jer 3:13 · Ezek 16:63 · Luke 15:18 · Rom 2:4 · +1 more

22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.Cross-references: Gen 41:42 · Deut 33:25 · Esth 3:10 · Esth 8:2 · Ps 18:33 · Ps 45:13 · +22 more

23Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate;Cross-references: Gen 18:7 · Ps 63:5 · Prov 9:2 · Isa 25:6 · Isa 65:13 · Matt 22:2

24for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.Cross-references: Gen 45:28 · Isa 35:10 · Isa 66:11 · Jer 31:12 · Ezek 34:4 · Ezek 34:16 · +24 more

25“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.Cross-references: Ex 15:20 · 2Sam 6:14 · Ps 30:11 · Ps 126:1 · Ps 149:3 · Ps 150:4 · +4 more

26He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on.

27He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’Cross-references: Luke 15:30 · Acts 9:17 · Acts 22:13 · Phlm 1:16

28But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.Cross-references: Gen 4:5 · 1Sam 17:28 · 1Sam 18:8 · Isa 65:5 · Isa 66:5 · Jonah 4:1 · +15 more

29But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:13 · Isa 58:2 · Isa 65:5 · Zech 7:3 · Mal 1:12 · Mal 3:14 · +15 more

30But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’Cross-references: Ex 32:7 · Ex 32:11 · Prov 29:3 · Luke 15:12 · Luke 15:22 · Luke 15:32 · +1 more

31“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.Cross-references: Matt 20:13 · Mark 7:27 · Luke 19:22 · Rom 9:4 · Rom 11:1 · Rom 11:35

32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”Cross-references: Ps 51:8 · Isa 35:10 · Hos 14:9 · Jonah 4:10 · Luke 7:34 · Luke 15:24 · +4 more