32It 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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And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; …
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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…
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