Luke 15:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Luke 15:24 —

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Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,(by grace ye are saved;)
Ezekiel 34:16
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Luke 15:4
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-32)

We have here the parable of the prodigal son, the scope of which is the same with those before, to show how pleasing to God the conversion of sinners is, of great sinners, and how ready he is to receive and entertain such, upon their repentance; but the circumstances of the parable do much more largely and fully set forth the riches of gospel grace than those did, and it has been, and will be whil…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. my son--now twice his son. dead ... lost--to me; to himself--to my service, my satisfaction; to his own dignity, peace, profit. alive again ... found--to all these. merry--(See on Lu 15:10).