✨WEB · Luke 15:27
What does Luke 15:27 mean?
"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 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.
“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
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.’
But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.
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.
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
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