Key Verse Spotlight
Luke 15:27 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’ "
Luke 15:27
Verse in Context
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25 “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on.
27 He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’
28 But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
29 But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
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Luke 15:1
"Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him."
Luke 15:2
"The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”"
Luke 15:3
"He told them this parable:"
Luke 15:4
"“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?"
Luke 15:5
"When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing."
Luke 15:6
"When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’"
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