Luke 15:12
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
KJV
καὶ εἶπεν ὁ νεώτερος αὐτῶν τῷ πατρί· πάτερ, δός μοι τὸ ἐπιβάλλον μέρος τῆς οὐσίας. καὶ διεῖλεν αὐτοῖς τὸν βίον.
Greek NT
et dixit adolescentior ex illis patri : Pater, da mihi portionem substantiæ, quæ me contingit. Et divisit illis substantiam.
Vulgate
and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion ofthy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
ASV
And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ὁ δὲ — SBLGNT
- ὁ δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Καὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
Parable
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1439The process of conversion and repentance was described by Jesus in the parable of the prodigal son, the center of which is the merciful father:37 The fascination of illusory freedom, the abandonment of the father's house; the extreme misery in which the son finds himself after squandering his fortune; his deep humiliation at finding himself obliged to feed swine, and still wors…
§1700The dignity of the human person is rooted in his creation in the image and likeness of God (article 1); it is fulfilled in his vocation to divine beatitude (article 2). It is essential to a human being freely to direct himself to this fulfillment (article 3). By his deliberate actions (article 4), the human person does, or does not, conform to the good promised by God and attes…
§2839With bold confidence, we began praying to our Father. In begging him that his name be hallowed, we were in fact asking him that we ourselves might be always made more holy. But though we are clothed with the baptismal garment, we do not cease to sin, to turn away from God. Now, in this new petition, we return to him like the prodigal son and, like the tax collector, recognize t…
Then follows a period of nine years from the nineteenth year of his age, during which having lost a friend, he followed the Manichæans — and wrote books on the fair and fit, and published a work on the liberal arts, and the categories of Aristotle. Chapter 1. Concerning that Most Unhappy Time in Which He, Being Deceived, Deceived Others; And Concerning the Mockers of His Confes…
Cross-references
- Deut 21:16 — Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
- Eccl 11:9 — Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things
- Luke 15:30 — But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
- Luke 21:4 — For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
- Mark 12:44 — For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
- Mark 12:44 — For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
- Prov 28:19 — He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.