Luke 15:23

kill it. sacrifice it. It was. sacrificial feast.

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and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat and be merry;
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²³ And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

Related Commentaries of Luke 15:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Luke 15:23