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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.

KJV

ὅτε δὲ ὁ υἱός σου οὗτος ὁ καταφαγών σου τὸν βίον μετὰ πορνῶν ἦλθεν, ἔθυσας αὐτῷ τὸν σιτευτὸν μόσχον.

Greek NT

Sed postquam filius tuus hic, qui devoravit substantiam suam cum meretricibus, venit, occidisti illi vitulum saginatum.

Vulgate

but when this thy son came, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.

ASV

But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βίος
bios
noun · 10×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
θύω
thuo
verb · 14×
κατεσθίω
katesthio
verb · 14×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
μόσχος
moschos
noun · 6×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πόρνη
porne
noun · 12×
σιτευτός
siteutos
adjective · 3×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτε
ote
adverb · 100×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: μετὰ | WH/NIV/RP: μετὰ | Treg: + τῶν
  • μετὰ — SBLGNT
  • μετὰ — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • + τῶν — Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: σιτευτὸν μόσχον | WH/Treg/NIV: σιτευτὸν μόσχον | RP: μόσχον τὸν σιτευτόν
  • σιτευτὸν μόσχον — SBLGNT
  • σιτευτὸν μόσχον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • μόσχον τὸν σιτευτόν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

5 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

  • Luke 11:13 — If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Luke 15:32 — It 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.
  • 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 18:11 — The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
  • Mark 7:28 — And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
  • 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 6:26 — For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
  • 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.