Luke 15:13

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
KJV

καὶ μετ’ οὐ πολλὰς ἡμέρας συναγαγὼν ἅπαντα ὁ νεώτερος υἱὸς ἀπεδήμησεν εἰς χώραν μακράν, καὶ ἐκεῖ διεσκόρπισεν τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ ζῶν ἀσώτως.
Greek NT

Et non post multos dies, congregatis omnibus, adolescentior filius peregre profectus est in regionem longinquam, et ibi dissipavit substantiam suam vivendo luxuriose.
Vulgate

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.
ASV

And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.
Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

20 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός

autos

pronoun · 5564×

διασκορπίζω

diaskorpizo

verb · 9×

εἰς

eis

preposition · 1769×

ζάω

zao

verb · 140×

καί

kai

conjunction · 8973×

μακρός

makros

adjective · 5×

μετά

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor

SBLGNT: πάντα | WH/Treg/NIV: πάντα | RP: ἅπαντα

πάντα — SBLGNT
πάντα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
ἅπαντα — Robinson-Pierpont

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Parable

The Prodigal Son

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Catechism of the Catholic Church · 3 passages

§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…

Homilies on Matthew

2. But what are the things set before us today? Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying. In a tone worthy of the wonder, with all his might he has uttered his voice, saying, Now all this was done. For when he saw the sea and the abyss of the love of God towards man, and that actually come to pass which never had been…

Confessions

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…

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cross-references

1Pet 4:3 — For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1Pet 4:4 — Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1Tim 5:6 — But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
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
Jas 4:3 — Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Jer 2:5 — Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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 16:1 — And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Luke 16:1 — And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Luke 16:19 — There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Prov 19:4 — Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Prov 21:17 — He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Prov 21:17 — He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Prov 23:19 — Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Prov 23:20 — Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Prov 28:7 — Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Prov 28:7 — Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Prov 29:3 — Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
Prov 29:3 — Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
Ps 119:9 — Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Rom 13:13 — Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.