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Luke 15:26

And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

KJV

καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος ἕνα τῶν παίδων ἐπυνθάνετο τί εἴη ταῦτα.

Greek NT

et vocavit unum de servis, et interrogavit quid hæc essent.

Vulgate

And he called to him one of the servants, and inquired what these things might be.

ASV

And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παῖς
pais
noun · 24×
προσκαλέομαι
proskaleomai
verb · 29×
πυνθάνομαι
punthanomai
verb · 11×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

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

trivial
SBLGNT: ἂν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἂν
  • ἂνSBLGNT
  • ἂνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

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

§589Jesus gave scandal above all when he identified his merciful conduct toward sinners with God's own attitude toward them.367 He went so far as to hint that by sharing the table of sinners he was admitting them to the messianic banquet.368 But it was most especially by forgiving sins that Jesus placed the religious authorities of Israel on the horns of a dilemma. Were they not en…
§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…

Cross-references

  • Acts 2:12 — And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?