Genesis 18:7; Isaiah 25:6; Isaiah 65:13; Isaiah 65:14; Matthew 22:2; Proverbs 9:2; Psalms 63:5
Be merry - Literally, “eating, let us rejoice.” The word “merry” does not quite express the meaning of the Greek. “Merriment” denotes a light, pl...
Luke 25. Three Parables Showing God's Love for the Lost, and His Joy at their Restoration. The three parables in this chapter have no definite note...
kill it . sacrifice it. It was. sacrificial feast.
DISCOURSE: 1545 THE PRODIGAL SON Luke 15:23-24 . Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry. For this my son was de...
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat, and be merry: The fatted calf, and kill it - Θυσατε, Sacrifice it. In ancient times...
Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it;— And sacrifice it. Elsner.
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: And bring hither the fatted calf (kept for festive occasions), a...
Parables of the Lost Sheep, of them Lost Coin, of the Prodigal Son 1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12-13 . The first of a serie...
The Prodigal Son (peculiar to Lk). 'This parable, like the two preceding, is intended to show what joy there is in heaven at the conversion of sinn...
Bring hither the fatted calf. — It is interesting to remember the impression which this part of the parable made on one of the great teachers of th...
Chapter 21 LOST AND FOUND. IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe...
the Son Who “Came to Himself” and to His Father Luke 15:11-24 The pearl of parables! Too often we desire God's gifts apart from Himself. The f...
Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the great discourse of t...
And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he...
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it,.... By which Christ is designed, in allusion to the calves offered in sacrifice, which were offered...
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat, and be merry: Ver. 23. And bring hither the fatted calf ] Christ is that fatted...
SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP (vs.3-7) Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would never choose a path of true discipleship if...
The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younge...
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Men Must Live In The Light Of The Coming Of The Son of Man In His Glory (15:1-19:28). Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethl...
Three Parables Dealing With The Seeking and Saving of the Lost (15:1-32). It will have been noted how great a concentration there is in this secti...
The Parable of The Loving Father, The Prodigal Son and the Dissatisfied Brother (15:11-32). When we come to the third parable there is a different...
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring forth quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet, and b...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 15:11 . A certain man .—Our heavenly Father, since Christ never represents Himself thus. He always speaks of Himself as a So...
Luke 15:20-24 The Hunger of the Soul. I. Why did God make it so natural for us all to grieve over the past, and to lament so bitterly for sin? On...
Luke 15:23-24 The Festival. I. The feast which here took place denotes "the joy of a forgiving God over a forgiven man, and the joy of a forgiven...
This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best exposition of it....
Luke 15:1 . Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; the...
We have read this chapter together many times; possibly some of us have read it hundreds of times; yet whenever we read it, we always find something...
Luke 15:11-13 . And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that fall...
Luke 15:1 . Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him. The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own righteousness, as...
A certain man had two sons. The prodigal and his brother I. GOD’S TREATMENT OF THE PENITENT. 1. The alienation of the heart from God. (1)...
EXPOSITION Luke 15:1-42 The Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the "lost," in which he explains his reason for loving and receivin...
The return:
and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat and be merry;
Christ Seeking To Save Luke 15:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable. 1. We have the shep...
The Prodigal Son Luke 15:11-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fifteenth chapter of Luke presents one parable with four outstanding messages, embracing...
Let us be merry — Both here, and wherever else this word occurs, whether in the Old or New Testament, it implies nothing of levity, but a solid, se...
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: