Luke 15:16
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
KJV
καὶ ἐπεθύμει γεμίσαι τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν κερατίων ᾧν ἤσθιον οἱ χοῖροι, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐδίδου αὐτῷ.
Greek NT
Et cupiebat implere ventrem suum de siliquis, quas porci manducabant : et nemo illi dabat.
Vulgate
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
ASV
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γεμίζω
gemizo
verb · 9×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κεράτιον
keration
noun · 1×
κοιλία
koilia
noun · 23×
οὐδείς
oudeis
adjective · 235×
χοῖρος
choiros
noun · 12×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἐπιθυμέω
epithumeo
verb · 16×
ἐσθίω
esthio
verb · 65×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: γεμίσαι τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ | Treg/NIV/RP: γεμίσαι τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ | WH/NA: χορτασθῆναι ἐκ
- γεμίσαι τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ — SBLGNT
- γεμίσαι τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- χορτασθῆναι ἐκ — Westcott-Hort, Nestle-Aland 27
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Parable
Historic Christian voices
7 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…
Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …
Cross-references
- 2Chr 33:12 — And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
- Hos 12:1 — Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
- Isa 44:20 — He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
- Isa 44:20 — He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
- Jer 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many
- Lam 4:5 — They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
- Lam 4:5 — They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
- Mal 3:7 — Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we ret
- Prov 27:7 — The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
- Ps 142:4 — I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
- Rom 6:19 — I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servan