Luke 15:11-32

KJV 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 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. 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. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: 23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. 25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. 26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. 28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. 29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: 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. 31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. 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.

CEV 11 Jesus told them yet another story: Once a man had two sons. 12 The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons. 13 Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living. 14 He had spent everything, when a bad famine spread through that whole land. Soon he had nothing to eat. 15 He went to work for a man in that country, and the man sent him out to take care of his pigs. 16 He would have been glad to eat what the pigs were eating, but no one gave him a thing. 17 Finally, he came to his senses and said, “My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death! 18 I will go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer good enough to be called your son. Treat me like one of your workers.’ ” 20 The younger son got up and started back to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him. 21 The son said, “Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you. I am no longer good enough to be called your son.” 22 But his father said to the servants, “Hurry and bring the best clothes and put them on him. Give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet. 23 Get the best calf and prepare it, so we can eat and celebrate. 24 This son of mine was dead, but has now come back to life. He was lost and has now been found.” And they began to celebrate. 25 The older son had been out in the field. But when he came near the house, he heard the music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants over and asked, “What's going on here?” 27 The servant answered, “Your brother has come home safe and sound, and your father ordered us to kill the best calf.” 28 The older brother got so angry that he would not even go into the house. His father came out and begged him to go in. 29 But he said to his father, “For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends. 30 This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.” 31 His father replied, “My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we should be glad and celebrate! Your brother was dead, but he is now alive. He was lost and has now been found.”

 COMMENTARY 

Verse 11

Luke 15:11

KJV 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

CEV 11 Jesus told them yet another story: Once a man had two sons.

A certain man.

For the circumstances under which this parable was spoken and for its relationship to the two preceding parables see on vs. Luke 15:3-4

KJV 3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

CEV 3 Then Jesus told them this story: 4 If any of you has 100 sheep, and one of them gets lost, what will you do? Won't you leave the 99 in the field and go look for the lost sheep until you find it?

, Luke 15:8

KJV 8 Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

CEV 8 Jesus told the people another story: What will a woman do if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them? Won't she light a lamp, sweep the floor, and look carefully until she finds it?

. Though Inspiration has not indicated precisely when and where this parable was spoken, it is reasonable to think that it was given either at the same time as the two that precede it, or very shortly after.

This, perhaps the most famous of all the parables of Jesus, consists of two parts. The first part (vs. Luke 15:11-24

KJV 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 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. 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. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: 23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

CEV 11 Jesus told them yet another story: Once a man had two sons. 12 The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons. 13 Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living. 14 He had spent everything, when a bad famine spread through that whole land. Soon he had nothing to eat. 15 He went to work for a man in that country, and the man sent him out to take care of his pigs. 16 He would have been glad to eat what the pigs were eating, but no one gave him a thing. 17 Finally, he came to his senses and said, “My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death! 18 I will go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer good enough to be called your son. Treat me like one of your workers.’ ” 20 The younger son got up and started back to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him. 21 The son said, “Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you. I am no longer good enough to be called your son.” 22 But his father said to the servants, “Hurry and bring the best clothes and put them on him. Give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet. 23 Get the best calf and prepare it, so we can eat and celebrate. 24 This son of mine was dead, but has now come back to life. He was lost and has now been found.” And they began to celebrate.

) emphasizes the emotions of the father of the lost son, his love for the boy, and his joy when the prodigal returned. The second part (vs. Luke 15:25-32

KJV 25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. 26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. 28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. 29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: 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. 31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. 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.

CEV 25 The older son had been out in the field. But when he came near the house, he heard the music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants over and asked, “What's going on here?” 27 The servant answered, “Your brother has come home safe and sound, and your father ordered us to kill the best calf.” 28 The older brother got so angry that he would not even go into the house. His father came out and begged him to go in. 29 But he said to his father, “For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends. 30 This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.” 31 His father replied, “My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we should be glad and celebrate! Your brother was dead, but he is now alive. He was lost and has now been found.”

) is a rebuke to those who, like the elder son, resented the father’s love and joy. This latter section was probably Christ’s answer to the murmuring of the scribes and Pharisees (see v. Luke 15:2

KJV 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

CEV 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

). Whereas the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin stress God’s part in the work of redemption, the parable of the Lost Son emphasizes man’s part in responding to the love of God and acting in harmony with it. The Jews had completely misconstrued the nature of divine love (see on v. Luke 15:7

KJV 7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

CEV 7 Jesus said, “In the same way there is more happiness in heaven because of one sinner who turns to God than over 99 good people who don't need to.”

). In the parable the younger son represents the publicans and the sinners, the older son, the scribes and the Pharisees.

Verse 12

Luke 15:12

KJV 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.

CEV 12 The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons.

The younger.

Evidently weary of restraint and probably feeling that his liberty was unduly restricted by a father who had only his own selfish interests at heart, this youth desired above all else to have his own way. He knew very well what he wanted, or at least thought he knew. That he did not, is apparent from the fact that “when he came to himself’ (v. Luke 15:17

KJV 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

CEV 17 Finally, he came to his senses and said, “My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death!

) his course of action changed completely. But now he understood neither himself nor his father. Most unfortunate of all, he did not understand or appreciate the fact that his father loved him and that all his father’s decisions and requirements were based on what was, in the end, best for the sons.

The narrative makes it clear that the father was a wise and understanding person, that he was both just and merciful, and that he was eminently reasonable. On the other hand, the inexperienced youth seemed to consider it his unquestioned right to take full advantage of all the privileges of sonship without bearing any of its responsibilities. After thinking things over he decided that the only course of action that would solve the problem in the way he thought it ought to be solved was to leave home and set out on his own, to live his life as he pleased. His chosen course of action began with a direct violation of the fifth commandment. For a consideration of the factors that enter into the responsibilities of children to parents and of parents to children see on ch. Luke 2:52

KJV 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

CEV 52 Jesus became wise, and he grew strong. God was pleased with him and so were the people.

.

Portion of goods.

That is, his share of the property. Jewish literature of the time discloses that it was not unusual for a father actually to make a division of his inheritance among his sons while he was yet alive rather than let such provisions as he might wish to make take effect upon his death. But the father was by no means obliged to do so. The youth’s demand was, therefore, highly improper. It seems quite evident that it meant nonconfidence on the part of the son toward the father and a complete and final rejection of the father’s authority.

That falleth to me.

That is, the share that properly belongs to me. This expression is commonly used in the Greek papyri to refer to a privilege to which one may be entitled or to an obligation he is bound to meet.

He divided.

The father, legitimately and properly, might have refused to accede to his son’s unreasonable demand, yet he granted it. The fact that he did so speaks well of his judgment as a parent and provides a clue to the fact that the son’s perverse choice was undoubtedly not due to an unwise attitude on the father’s part. There are times when it seems that the best thing a parent can do is to permit a headstrong youth to have his way in order that he may discover from experience the results of his choice.

According to the Mosaic law, the eldest son was to receive a double portion of his father’s estate, and the younger sons were to receive a single portion each (see on Deuteronomy 21:17

KJV 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

CEV Moses said to Israel: 15-17 Suppose a man has two wives and loves one more than the other. The first son of either wife is the man's first-born son, even if the boy's mother is the wife the man doesn't love. Later, when the man is near death and is dividing up his property, he must give a double share to his first-born son, simply because he was the first to be born.

). The extra portion granted the eldest son was designed to provide him with the necessary resources for discharging his responsibilities as head of the household. If a father had only two sons, as was the case here (see v. Luke 15:11

KJV 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

CEV 11 Jesus told them yet another story: Once a man had two sons.

), the younger son would receive one third of his father’s estate. Ordinarily, however, when a division of property was made during the father’s lifetime, the property remained intact until the father’s death. The younger son of the parable, however, demanded not only a division of the estate but actual possession of his share of it. From the record of the narrative (see v. Luke 15:13

KJV 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.

CEV 13 Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living.

) it seems likely that he converted his share of the property entirely into cash or other easily carried valuables.

Verse 13

Luke 15:13

KJV 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.

CEV 13 Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living.

Younger son.

In his departure from the parental roof the younger son represents the publicans and the sinners (v. Luke 15:1

KJV 1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

CEV 1 Tax collectors and sinners were all crowding around to listen to Jesus.

), who have severed connections with their heavenly Father and make no profession of allegiance to Hun.

A far country.

He was not content to settle down near home, where he would be reminded from time to time of his father and his father’s counsel. He sought to be free from all the restraints of home. Undoubtedly he wanted to forget. The “far country” thus represents a “far” removed condition of forgetfulness of God.

Wasted his substance.

That is, he scattered his property in a wasteful manner. Thus he rapidly spent the treasures he had assiduously “gathered” together (see on v. Luke 15:12

KJV 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.

CEV 12 The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons.

). Apparently his conscience was asleep, and in the “far country” of forgetfulness of his father’s counsel and guidance there was nothing to prevent him from doing precisely as he pleased. According to his own conception of life, he was now living it to the full.

With riotous living.

Literally, “in living riotously.” The Gr. asötös, “wastefully,” “dissolutely,” or “profligately,” is an adverb derived from a, a negative prefix, and sod or sözö, “to save.” The “living” of the young man may have been recklessly wasteful, or morally dissolute, or both. The elder son of the parable emphasized the second of these two possible shades of meaning in respect to his younger brother’s “living” (see v. Luke 15:30

KJV 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.

CEV 30 This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.”

). However, this latter way of life generally includes the first also. The way the youth disposed of his financial resources, which appear to have been considerable, reveals his concept of life. According to his way of looking at things, a man comes into this world for the purpose of getting all he can out of it, without contributing anything in return.

Verse 14

Luke 15:14

KJV 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

CEV 14 He had spent everything, when a bad famine spread through that whole land. Soon he had nothing to eat.

When he had spent all.

To begin with, his fortune appeared of such proportions that apparently he could draw on it indefinitely without replenishing it. Now, suddenly and unexpectedly, it disappeared. To make matters worse than they would otherwise have been, a severe famine arose in the land. Had he been diligent in adding to his resources and frugal in his expenditures, the famine probably would have brought no extreme hardship. But quite evidently he had not anticipated poverty coupled with famine.

He began to be in want.

In time of storm the prodigal’s fair-weather friends vanished. They were without doubt much like him, living for self-gratification. But the young man was a stranger, a newcomer, and in times of stress such as these every man no doubt found it more than he could do to supply his own needs. The young man’s improvident spending (see on v. Luke 15:13

KJV 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.

CEV 13 Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living.

) had not gained him even one friend on whom he could rely for help in his time of need.

Verse 15

Luke 15:15

KJV 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

CEV 15 He went to work for a man in that country, and the man sent him out to take care of his pigs.

Joined himself.

Gr. kollaö, “to glue together,” hence “to join,” or “to cleave to.” The prodigal practically sold himself to a man who had little to offer him.

To a citizen.

Literally, “to one of the citizens.” This being “a far country,” the “citizen” of that country was probably a Gentile and a heathen.

His fields.

The “citizen” was evidently a man of some property.

To feed swine.

To a Jew, for whom the swine were unclean, there could scarcely be a more degrading form of employment. In this respect the young man could sink no lower. Possibly he was not qualified for any higher type of employment. Apparently, at home he had not spent his time profitably in acquiring useful skills, and his “riotous living” (v. Luke 15:13

KJV 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.

CEV 13 Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living.

) now left him a derelict of society.

Verse 16

Luke 15:16

KJV 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

CEV 16 He would have been glad to eat what the pigs were eating, but no one gave him a thing.

He would fain.

Literally, “he was desiring [or craving].”

Filled his belly.

Apparently he could not earn even enough to eat, and found himself reduced to the place where what the swine ate seemed desirable to him also. Thus, for the moment, his ambitions in life were no higher than those of the swine. In fact, his ambitions had been no higher during his riotous days, but he did not become aware of the fact until he was reduced to actual hunger.

Husks.

Gr. keratia, “little horns,” a diminutive form of keros, “a horn.” Keratia is used to describe the pods of the keratea, the carob, or locust, tree, because of the hornlike shape of the pods. The pod of this tree has also been called St.-John’s-bread, on the tradition that this was part of the diet of John the Baptist (see Additional Note on Matt. 3). After the removal of the seeds for human consumption, the pods themselves were commonly used as fodder for domestic animals--as contemporary Jewish literature often observed. The carob tree is still cultivated in Palestine, and has been introduced into the United States.

Verse 17

Luke 15:17

KJV 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

CEV 17 Finally, he came to his senses and said, “My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death!

Came to himself.

Some people seem to float along on the tide of life without a serious thought until death stares them in the face. For all practical purposes the youth had been out of his head, but the dire need in which he now found himself forced him to come to his senses. Those who live, or rather exist, exclusively on merely the physical level lack the capacity to understand the lessons of life except when these come to them in terms of physical need, desire, or pain. This young man had, as it were, been “away” from himself, but now came back again. He found himself—a new experience, apparently—and began to realize how foolish he had been.

How many hired servants.

Note that they were “hired servants,” not “slaves.” Probably the young man had once despised, and possibly even mistreated, his father’s hired servants. Now the lot in life of a “hired servant” in his father’s house appeared highly desirable in his eyes. For all practical purposes he was a “slave,” and starving at that. His boasted liberty had proved to be, in reality, the worst kind of slavery—which it had been all along, though he did not realize the fact. So this was the climax of a life patterned according to his own philosophy of things! His condition was the result of his own folly. The wisdom of his father’s philosophy of life now began to take on meaning for him.

Verse 18

Luke 15:18

KJV 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

CEV 18 I will go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you.

I will arise.

Perhaps as much morally as physically. He arose from the lethargy and despair that had spread over the skies of his life with the ominous threat of disaster and desolation. As yet he had no concept of the nature of his father’s love. But a sense of his father’s justice gave birth to the desperate hope that his father would treat him as he treated his hired help.

I have sinned.

It seems not to have entered his thoughts to contrive some excuse for his course of action, much less to blame his father for it. His present state testified to the fact that his father had been right all along, and that he had been in the wrong. His confession was to be honest and unqualified.

Against heaven.

The religious instruction he had received in his father’s home had not been entirely forgotten. He realized that any wrong act toward his fellow men was construed in heaven as if it had been done to God (see Genesis 39:9

KJV 9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

CEV 9 No one in my master's house is more important than I am. The only thing he hasn't given me is you, and that's because you are his wife. I won't sin against God by doing such a terrible thing as this.”

). All along he had been openly violating the principles of the fifth commandment, if not the others as well.

Verse 19

Luke 15:19

KJV 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

CEV 19 I am no longer good enough to be called your son. Treat me like one of your workers.’ ”

No more worthy.

He had no worthiness of his own to offer as a reason for being given a job on the family estate. He could not pretend that there was, for it was altogether too obvious that he had no claim of any kind on his father.

As one of thy hired servants.

He would apply for a job as a favor, not as a right. He had no rights. Formerly he had not been willing to submit to paternal discipline as a son; now he was ready to submit to the discipline that his father, as master of the estate, administered to his servants. He had, for all practical purposes, disowned his father, and in strict justice his father might be expected to disown him as a son. But perhaps he would accept him as a servant.

Verse 20

Luke 15:20

KJV 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

CEV 20 The younger son got up and started back to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him.

He arose, and came.

Apparently the prodigal acted without delay. No sooner had he made his decision than he carried it out. In the parable it is the son who takes the initiative in returning to the father. It appears to be the son’s choice rather than the father’s love that effects reconciliation. From this some have drawn the unwarranted conclusion that Jesus here teaches that the first step in reconciliation is that the individual must return to God of his own volition—that it is not the love of God that first draws him. Such a conclusion, however, violates more than one fundamental principle of the interpretation of Christ’s parables (see pp. 203-207). Furthermore, in the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin, Jesus has clearly set forth the truth here called into question, that the initiative in effecti ng salvation and reconciliation is of God. Also, no parable based on ordinary human relationships can perfectly reflect all aspects of the love and mercy of God. God’s gift of His Son to the world was before men’s belief in that Gift (John 3:16

KJV 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

CEV 16 God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.

), and the Scriptures specifically teach that even the desire to do right is implanted in the human heart by God (see Philippians 2:13

KJV 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

CEV 13 God is working in you to make you willing and able to obey him.

).

His father saw him.

Jesus implies that the father was looking for his son to return, even expecting him. The father seems to have known the boy’s character and disposition well enough to realize—even when bestowing upon the youth his share of the family fortune and when bidding him farewell—that he lacked those essential traits of character that would enable him to make a success of his venture. Apparently he reasoned that sooner or later the boy would come to himself (see on v. Luke 15:17

KJV 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

CEV 17 Finally, he came to his senses and said, “My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death!

). He recognized his son, even in his tattered garments, and at a distance. In vs. Luke 15:20-24

KJV 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: 23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

CEV 20 The younger son got up and started back to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him. 21 The son said, “Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you. I am no longer good enough to be called your son.” 22 But his father said to the servants, “Hurry and bring the best clothes and put them on him. Give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet. 23 Get the best calf and prepare it, so we can eat and celebrate. 24 This son of mine was dead, but has now come back to life. He was lost and has now been found.” And they began to celebrate.

Jesus unfolds to His hearers the character of the father, even as in vs. Luke 15:11-19

KJV 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 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. 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. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

CEV 11 Jesus told them yet another story: Once a man had two sons. 12 The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons. 13 Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living. 14 He had spent everything, when a bad famine spread through that whole land. Soon he had nothing to eat. 15 He went to work for a man in that country, and the man sent him out to take care of his pigs. 16 He would have been glad to eat what the pigs were eating, but no one gave him a thing. 17 Finally, he came to his senses and said, “My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death! 18 I will go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer good enough to be called your son. Treat me like one of your workers.’ ”

He dwells upon that of the younger son.

Ran.

He might have waited for the boy to come up to where he stood. Instead, he made evident the eagerness and joy of his own heart by going forth to meet him.

Fell on his neck.

That is, in an embrace. The son had not yet spoken, but his return in so sorry a state spoke more eloquently than any words he may have contrived to say. Nor is there any record of what the father may have said to his son, but his orders to the servants, together with his own manifestation of fatherly love, were likewise more eloquent than words could possibly have been.

Verse 21

Luke 15:21

KJV 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

CEV 21 The son said, “Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you. I am no longer good enough to be called your son.”

I have sinned.

See on v. Luke 15:18

KJV 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

CEV 18 I will go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you.

.

Called thy son.

Important textual evidence may be cited (cf. p. 146) for adding “treat me as one of your hired servants.” The father had other plans for him—as a son and not as a servant.

Verse 22

Luke 15:22

KJV 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

CEV 22 But his father said to the servants, “Hurry and bring the best clothes and put them on him. Give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet.

Bring forth.

Important textual evidence may be cited (cf. p. 146) for the reading “bring forth quickly.”

Robe.

Gr. stole, a loose outer garment for men, which extended to the feet; usually worn by persons of rank. From the very first the father received him as a son and not as a servant. To begin with, the father had cast his own mantle about the youth, for the purpose of hiding his rags (see COL 203, 204

KJV COL 203, 204 KJV - - Bible Gateway(function() { var apis = [window. fetch, Object. assign, Array. prototype. includes, NodeList. prototype. forEach, Array. from]; apis. every(function(api) {return api}) || document. write(''); window. assetsVersion = "3afd8baf"; })(); BG. appData({"recaptcha_key": "6LdMkEkUAAAAAGd5aGH1cwku1OFyHwKYW_QUDZxm", "assets_version": "3afd8baf", "locale": "en", "cdn_host": "", "version0": {"version_id": "KJV"}, "il_versions": [], "il_option": false, "books": {"KJV": [{"display": "Genesis", "osis": "Gen", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 50, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the beginning God created the heaven and the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the whole earth was of one language, and of one "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["After these things the word of the Lord came "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 32, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the "]}, {"chapter": 33, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up "]}, {"chapter": 34, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two "]}, {"chapter": 35, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and "]}, {"chapter": 36, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the "]}, {"chapter": 37, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length "]}, {"chapter": 38, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the "]}, {"chapter": 39, "type": "verse", "content": ["And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do "]}, {"chapter": 40, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Leviticus", "osis": "Lev", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 27, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Numbers", "osis": "Num", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 36, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 32, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude "]}, {"chapter": 33, "type": "verse", "content": ["These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the "]}, {"chapter": 34, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses, "]}, {"chapter": 35, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of "]}, {"chapter": 36, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Deuteronomy", "osis": "Deut", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 34, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["If one be found slain in the land which the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord also spake unto Joshua, "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord came up from Gilgal to "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these are the nations which the Lord left, "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the ark of the Lord was in the country of "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord sent me to "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "2 Samuel", "osis": "2Sam", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 24, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["And David spake unto the Lord the words of this "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["And again the anger of the Lord was kindled "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "1 Kings", "osis": "1Kgs", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 22, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["So king Solomon was king over all "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord would take "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "1 Chronicles", "osis": "1Chr", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 29, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Adam, Sheth, "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom, "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then David said, This is the house of the Lord "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "2 Chronicles", "osis": "2Chr", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 36, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord hath said that he "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the "]}, {"chapter": 32, "type": "verse", "content": ["After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria "]}, {"chapter": 33, "type": "verse", "content": ["Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and "]}, {"chapter": 34, "type": "verse", "content": ["Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem "]}, {"chapter": 35, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord "]}, {"chapter": 36, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Ezra", "osis": "Ezra", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 10, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord answered Job out of the "]}, {"chapter": 39, "type": "verse", "content": ["Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst "]}, {"chapter": 40, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover the Lord answered Job, and "]}, {"chapter": 41, "type": "verse", "content": ["Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which "]}, {"chapter": 42, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Job answered the Lord, and "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Psalm", "osis": "Ps", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 150, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will love thee, O Lord, my "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me "]}, {"chapter": 32, "type": "verse", "content": ["Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is "]}, {"chapter": 33, "type": "verse", "content": ["Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise "]}, {"chapter": 34, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise "]}, {"chapter": 35, "type": "verse", "content": ["Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive "]}, {"chapter": 36, "type": "verse", "content": ["The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of "]}, {"chapter": 37, "type": "verse", "content": ["Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the "]}, {"chapter": 38, "type": "verse", "content": ["O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot "]}, {"chapter": 39, "type": "verse", "content": ["I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep "]}, {"chapter": 40, "type": "verse", "content": ["I waited patiently for the Lord; and he "]}, {"chapter": 41, "type": "verse", "content": ["Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord, and greatly to be praised in "]}, {"chapter": 49, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the "]}, {"chapter": 50, "type": "verse", "content": ["The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and "]}, {"chapter": 51, "type": "verse", "content": ["Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the "]}, {"chapter": 52, "type": "verse", "content": ["Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God "]}, {"chapter": 53, "type": "verse", "content": ["The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have "]}, {"chapter": 54, "type": "verse", "content": ["Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy "]}, {"chapter": 55, "type": "verse", "content": ["Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my "]}, {"chapter": 56, "type": "verse", "content": ["Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily "]}, {"chapter": 57, "type": "verse", "content": ["Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: "]}, {"chapter": 58, "type": "verse", "content": ["Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye "]}, {"chapter": 59, "type": "verse", "content": ["Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up "]}, {"chapter": 60, "type": "verse", "content": ["O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been "]}, {"chapter": 61, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my "]}, {"chapter": 62, "type": "verse", "content": ["Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my "]}, {"chapter": 63, "type": "verse", "content": ["O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my "]}, {"chapter": 64, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the "]}, {"chapter": 65, "type": "verse", "content": ["Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be "]}, {"chapter": 66, "type": "verse", "content": ["Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye "]}, {"chapter": 67, "type": "verse", "content": ["God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; "]}, {"chapter": 68, "type": "verse", "content": ["Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee "]}, {"chapter": 69, "type": "verse", "content": ["Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my "]}, {"chapter": 70, "type": "verse", "content": ["Make haste, o God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me "]}, {"chapter": 72, "type": "verse", "content": ["Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's "]}, {"chapter": 73, "type": "verse", "content": ["Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean "]}, {"chapter": 74, "type": "verse", "content": ["O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against "]}, {"chapter": 75, "type": "verse", "content": ["Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy "]}, {"chapter": 76, "type": "verse", "content": ["In Judah is God known: his name is great in "]}, {"chapter": 77, "type": "verse", "content": ["I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear "]}, {"chapter": 78, "type": "verse", "content": ["Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my "]}, {"chapter": 79, "type": "verse", "content": ["O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they "]}, {"chapter": 80, "type": "verse", "content": ["Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou "]}, {"chapter": 81, "type": "verse", "content": ["Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of "]}, {"chapter": 82, "type": "verse", "content": ["God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the "]}, {"chapter": 83, "type": "verse", "content": ["Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O "]}, {"chapter": 84, "type": "verse", "content": ["How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of "]}, {"chapter": 85, "type": "verse", "content": ["Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the "]}, {"chapter": 86, "type": "verse", "content": ["Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am "]}, {"chapter": 87, "type": "verse", "content": ["His foundation is in the holy "]}, {"chapter": 88, "type": "verse", "content": ["O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before "]}, {"chapter": 89, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for "]}, {"chapter": 90, "type": "verse", "content": ["Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all "]}, {"chapter": 91, "type": "verse", "content": ["He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the "]}, {"chapter": 92, "type": "verse", "content": ["It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; "]}, {"chapter": 94, "type": "verse", "content": ["O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, "]}, {"chapter": 95, "type": "verse", "content": ["O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make "]}, {"chapter": 96, "type": "verse", "content": ["O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the "]}, {"chapter": 97, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let "]}, {"chapter": 98, "type": "verse", "content": ["O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath "]}, {"chapter": 99, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he "]}, {"chapter": 100, "type": "verse", "content": ["Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye "]}, {"chapter": 101, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O Lord, and let my cry come "]}, {"chapter": 103, "type": "verse", "content": ["Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is "]}, {"chapter": 104, "type": "verse", "content": ["Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord; call upon his "]}, {"chapter": 106, "type": "verse", "content": ["Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the "]}, {"chapter": 107, "type": "verse", "content": ["O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: "]}, {"chapter": 108, "type": "verse", "content": ["O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my "]}, {"chapter": 109, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hold not thy peace, O God of my "]}, {"chapter": 110, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my "]}, {"chapter": 111, "type": "verse", "content": ["Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord. Blessed is the man that "]}, {"chapter": 113, "type": "verse", "content": ["Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of "]}, {"chapter": 114, "type": "verse", "content": ["When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange "]}, {"chapter": 115, "type": "verse", "content": ["Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy "]}, {"chapter": 116, "type": "verse", "content": ["I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice "]}, {"chapter": 117, "type": "verse", "content": ["O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, "]}, {"chapter": 118, "type": "verse", "content": ["O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: "]}, {"chapter": 119, "type": "verse", "content": ["Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord, and he "]}, {"chapter": 121, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my "]}, {"chapter": 122, "type": "verse", "content": ["I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord who was on our "]}, {"chapter": 125, "type": "verse", "content": ["They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount "]}, {"chapter": 126, "type": "verse", "content": ["When the Lord turned again the captivity of "]}, {"chapter": 127, "type": "verse", "content": ["Except the Lord build the house, they labour in "]}, {"chapter": 128, "type": "verse", "content": ["Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; "]}, {"chapter": 129, "type": "verse", "content": ["Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now "]}, {"chapter": 130, "type": "verse", "content": ["Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord, all ye servants of "]}, {"chapter": 135, "type": "verse", "content": ["Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the name of the "]}, {"chapter": 136, "type": "verse", "content": ["O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: "]}, {"chapter": 137, "type": "verse", "content": ["By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered "]}, {"chapter": 138, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto "]}, {"chapter": 139, "type": "verse", "content": ["O lord, thou hast searched me, and known "]}, {"chapter": 140, "type": "verse", "content": ["Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve "]}, {"chapter": 141, "type": "verse", "content": ["Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry "]}, {"chapter": 142, "type": "verse", "content": ["I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my "]}, {"chapter": 143, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my "]}, {"chapter": 144, "type": "verse", "content": ["Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth "]}, {"chapter": 145, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and "]}, {"chapter": 146, "type": "verse", "content": ["Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord: for it is good to sing "]}, {"chapter": 148, "type": "verse", "content": ["Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord. Praise God in his "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Proverbs", "osis": "Prov", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 31, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Ecclesiastes", "osis": "Eccl", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 12, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Song of Solomon", "osis": "Song", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 8, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The song of songs, which is "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Isaiah", "osis": "Isa", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 66, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord said unto me, Take thee a "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["In that day the Lord with his sore and great "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in "]}, {"chapter": 32, "type": "verse", "content": ["Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in "]}, {"chapter": 33, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest "]}, {"chapter": 34, "type": "verse", "content": ["Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and "]}, {"chapter": 35, "type": "verse", "content": ["The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert "]}, {"chapter": 36, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib "]}, {"chapter": 37, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and "]}, {"chapter": 38, "type": "verse", "content": ["In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of "]}, {"chapter": 39, "type": "verse", "content": ["At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters "]}, {"chapter": 40, "type": "verse", "content": ["Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your "]}, {"chapter": 41, "type": "verse", "content": ["Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let "]}, {"chapter": 42, "type": "verse", "content": ["Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I "]}, {"chapter": 43, "type": "verse", "content": ["But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, "]}, {"chapter": 44, "type": "verse", "content": ["Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have "]}, {"chapter": 45, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, "]}, {"chapter": 46, "type": "verse", "content": ["Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the "]}, {"chapter": 47, "type": "verse", "content": ["Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the "]}, {"chapter": 48, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are "]}, {"chapter": 49, "type": "verse", "content": ["Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord, Where is the bill of your "]}, {"chapter": 51, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do "]}, {"chapter": 57, "type": "verse", "content": ["The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are "]}, {"chapter": 58, "type": "verse", "content": ["Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people "]}, {"chapter": 59, "type": "verse", "content": ["Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that "]}, {"chapter": 60, "type": "verse", "content": ["Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the God is upon me; because "]}, {"chapter": 62, "type": "verse", "content": ["For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not "]}, {"chapter": 63, "type": "verse", "content": ["Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is "]}, {"chapter": 64, "type": "verse", "content": ["Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the "]}, {"chapter": 65, "type": "verse", "content": ["I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me "]}, {"chapter": 66, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Jeremiah", "osis": "Jer", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 52, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus saith the Lord unto me, Go and get thee a "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord came also unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord; Go down to the house of "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the "]}, {"chapter": 32, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in "]}, {"chapter": 33, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover the word of the Lord came unto "]}, {"chapter": 34, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord "]}, {"chapter": 36, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of "]}, {"chapter": 37, "type": "verse", "content": ["And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of "]}, {"chapter": 38, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal "]}, {"chapter": 39, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came "]}, {"chapter": 40, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, "]}, {"chapter": 41, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the "]}, {"chapter": 42, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and "]}, {"chapter": 43, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all "]}, {"chapter": 44, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land "]}, {"chapter": 45, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he "]}, {"chapter": 46, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the "]}, {"chapter": 47, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the "]}, {"chapter": 48, "type": "verse", "content": ["Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the "]}, {"chapter": 49, "type": "verse", "content": ["Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the Lord; "]}, {"chapter": 50, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word that the Lord spake against Babylon "]}, {"chapter": 51, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up "]}, {"chapter": 52, "type": "verse", "content": ["Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Lamentations", "osis": "Lam", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 5, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Ezekiel", "osis": "Ezek", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 48, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord also came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["Again the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord came unto me again, "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord came again unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord came again unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord came again unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord came again unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 29, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the "]}, {"chapter": 30, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord came again unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 31, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day "]}, {"chapter": 32, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day "]}, {"chapter": 33, "type": "verse", "content": ["Again the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 34, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 35, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 36, "type": "verse", "content": ["Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye "]}, {"chapter": 37, "type": "verse", "content": ["The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried "]}, {"chapter": 38, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of the Lord came unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 39, "type": "verse", "content": ["Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord "]}, {"chapter": 40, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, "]}, {"chapter": 41, "type": "verse", "content": ["Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad "]}, {"chapter": 42, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he "]}, {"chapter": 43, "type": "verse", "content": ["Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the "]}, {"chapter": 44, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which "]}, {"chapter": 45, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer "]}, {"chapter": 46, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner "]}, {"chapter": 47, "type": "verse", "content": ["Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters "]}, {"chapter": 48, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Daniel", "osis": "Dan", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 12, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Hosea", "osis": "Hos", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 14, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["O israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Joel", "osis": "Joel", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 3, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Amos", "osis": "Amos", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 9, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Obadiah", "osis": "Obad", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 1, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Jonah", "osis": "Jonah", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 4, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Micah", "osis": "Mic", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 7, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord that came to Micah the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Nahum", "osis": "Nah", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 3, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Habakkuk", "osis": "Hab", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 3, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Zephaniah", "osis": "Zeph", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 3, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Haggai", "osis": "Hag", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 2, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Zechariah", "osis": "Zech", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 14, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of the word of the Lord in the land "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Malachi", "osis": "Mal", "testament": "OT", "num_chapters": 4, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Matthew", "osis": "Matt", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 28, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Judge not, that ye be not "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Mark", "osis": "Mark", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 16, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Luke", "osis": "Luke", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 24, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["After these things the Lord appointed other "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Jesus entered and passed through "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "John", "osis": "John", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 21, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Jesus went unto the mount of "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["I am the true vine, and my Father is the "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Acts", "osis": "Acts", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 28, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then said the high priest, Are these things "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto "]}, {"chapter": 23, "type": "verse", "content": ["And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived "]}, {"chapter": 24, "type": "verse", "content": ["And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with "]}, {"chapter": 25, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from "]}, {"chapter": 26, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul "]}, {"chapter": 27, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul "]}, {"chapter": 28, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Romans", "osis": "Rom", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 16, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "1 Corinthians", "osis": "1Cor", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 16, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Am I am not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "2 Corinthians", "osis": "2Cor", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 13, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Galatians", "osis": "Gal", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 6, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Ephesians", "osis": "Eph", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 6, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Philippians", "osis": "Phil", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 4, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Colossians", "osis": "Col", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 4, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "1 Thessalonians", "osis": "1Thess", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 5, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "2 Thessalonians", "osis": "2Thess", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 3, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "1 Timothy", "osis": "1Tim", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 6, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "2 Timothy", "osis": "2Tim", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 4, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Titus", "osis": "Titus", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 3, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["But speak thou the things which become sound "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Philemon", "osis": "Phlm", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 1, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Hebrews", "osis": "Heb", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 13, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["Let brotherly love "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "James", "osis": "Jas", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 5, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "1 Peter", "osis": "1Pet", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 5, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "2 Peter", "osis": "2Pet", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 3, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "1 John", "osis": "1John", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 5, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "2 John", "osis": "2John", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 1, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "3 John", "osis": "3John", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 1, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Jude", "osis": "Jude", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 1, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are "]}], "intro": false}, {"display": "Revelation", "osis": "Rev", "testament": "NT", "num_chapters": 22, "chapters": [{"chapter": 1, "type": "verse", "content": ["The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his "]}, {"chapter": 2, "type": "verse", "content": ["Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that "]}, {"chapter": 3, "type": "verse", "content": ["And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that "]}, {"chapter": 4, "type": "verse", "content": ["After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first "]}, {"chapter": 5, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within "]}, {"chapter": 6, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the "]}, {"chapter": 7, "type": "verse", "content": ["And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the "]}, {"chapter": 8, "type": "verse", "content": ["And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the "]}, {"chapter": 9, "type": "verse", "content": ["And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: "]}, {"chapter": 10, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and "]}, {"chapter": 11, "type": "verse", "content": ["And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, "]}, {"chapter": 12, "type": "verse", "content": ["And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and "]}, {"chapter": 13, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, "]}, {"chapter": 14, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred "]}, {"chapter": 15, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the "]}, {"chapter": 16, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your "]}, {"chapter": 17, "type": "verse", "content": ["And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked "]}, {"chapter": 18, "type": "verse", "content": ["And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great "]}, {"chapter": 19, "type": "verse", "content": ["And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, "]}, {"chapter": 20, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit "]}, {"chapter": 21, "type": "verse", "content": ["And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first "]}, {"chapter": 22, "type": "verse", "content": ["And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding "]}], "intro": false}]}, "featured_resources": ["kjv-study-bible", "zondervan-kjv-commentary-ot", "zondervan-kjv-commentary-nt", "thru-the-bible", "how-to-read-bible-book-by-book"], "translations": ["KJV"], "osis": "\/kjv", "osis_w_verse": "\/kjv", "ad_data": {"anchor": "hide-ba"}}); (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r; i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r]. q=i[r]. q||[]). push(arguments)}, i[r]. l=1*new Date(); a=s. createElement(o), m=s. getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a. async=1; a. src=g; BG. Consents. onConsent(2). then(function() {m. parentNode. insertBefore(a, m)}); })(window, document, 'script', 'https: //www. google-analytics. com/analytics. js', 'ga'); ga('create', 'UA-3008784-8', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag. cmd = googletag. cmd || []; googletag. cmd. push(function() { googletag. pubads(). disableInitialLoad(); googletag. pubads(). enableSingleRequest(); googletag. pubads(). setTargeting("version", "KJV"); googletag. pubads(). setTargeting("versionlang", "en"); googletag. pubads(). setTargeting("interface", "www"); googletag. pubads(). setTargeting("lang", "en"); googletag. enableServices(); }); BG. Consents. onConsent(2). then(function() { var gads = document. createElement('script'); gads. async = true; gads. type = 'text/javascript'; var useSSL = 'https: ' == document. location. protocol; gads. src = (useSSL ? 'https: ' : 'http: ') + '//securepubads. g. doubleclick. net/tag/js/gpt. js'; var node = document. getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; node. parentNode. insertBefore(gads, node); }); require(['. /main. min'], function() { BG. registerBGA('sidetall'); BG. registerBGA('anchor'); BG. BGAInit('/6177/slm. bg7/bible', true); }); BG. Consents. onConsent(2). then(function() { ! function(a9, a, p, s, t, A, g){if(a[a9])return; function q(c, r){a[a9]. _Q. push([c, r])}a[a9]={init: function(){q("i", arguments)}, fetchBids: function(){q("f", arguments)}, setDisplayBids: function(){}, _Q: []}; A=p. createElement(s); A. async=! 0; A. src=t; g=p. getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; g. parentNode. insertBefore(A, g)}("apstag", window, document, "script", "//c. amazon-adsystem. com/aax2/apstag. js"); apstag. init({ pubID: '3281', adServer: 'googletag', deals: true }); }); ! function(n, e, i){if(! n){n=n||{}, window. permutive=n, n. q=[], n. config=i||{}, n. config. apiKey=e, n. config. environment=n. config. environment||"production"; for(var o=["addon", "identify", "track", "trigger", "query", "segment", "segments", "ready", "on", "once", "user", "consent"], r=0; r

CEV

) and sparing him the embarrassment of being seen in his tattered garments even by the servants of the household. It is unlikely that the servants accompanied their master as he ran forth to greet his son, and therefore the command to “bring forth the best robe” was given as father and son approached the house.

A ring.

Another token that the father still owned him as a son. This was probably a signet ring (see on Esther 3:10

KJV 10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

CEV 10 The king handed his official ring to Haman, who hated the Jews, and the king told him,

; Esther 8:2

KJV 2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

CEV 2 and gave him the royal ring that Haman had worn. Then Esther put Mordecai in charge of Haman's property.

), and if so, the placing of it on his finger indicated even more clearly his restored status as a member of the family. No doubt the young man had long since sold or pawned the signet ring he formerly wore.

Shoes.

Literally, “sandals” (see on Matthew 3:11

KJV 11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

CEV 11 I baptize you with water so you will give up your sins. But someone more powerful is going to come, and I am not good enough even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

). Servants commonly went barefoot. “Shoes” were a further indication that the father received the repentant prodigal as a son and not as a servant. The best robe, the ring, and the shoes were not necessities, but special tokens of favor. The father not only provided for the needs of his son, but honored him, and in so doing gave evidence of the love and joy that filled his own heart. By the use of this parable Jesus justifies the welcome He accorded the sinners who pressed about Him (see on v. Luke 15:1

KJV 1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

CEV 1 Tax collectors and sinners were all crowding around to listen to Jesus.

) and reproved the scribes and Pharisees for their critical attitude toward Him for doing so (see on v. Luke 15:2

KJV 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

CEV 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

).

Verse 24

Luke 15:24

KJV 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

CEV 24 This son of mine was dead, but has now come back to life. He was lost and has now been found.” And they began to celebrate.

My son was dead.

That is, “dead” for all the father knew, literally and figuratively so because of the nature of their separation from each other. For the figurative use of the word “dead” see on ch. Luke 9:60

KJV 60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

CEV 60 Jesus answered, “Let the dead take care of the dead, while you go and tell about God's kingdom.”

.

Began to be merry.

The young man found himself, not a servant as he had hoped, but an honored guest at a banquet held to celebrate his return. An Oriental banquet commonly lasts for a number of hours.

Verse 25

Luke 15:25

KJV 25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

CEV 25 The older son had been out in the field. But when he came near the house, he heard the music and dancing.

His elder son.

In the parable nothing more is said directly concerning the younger son. His restoration is now complete, and the lesson of the parable in so far as he is concerned—the gracious welcome Heaven accords the returning and repentant sinner—is clear. Thus far Jesus has justified His friendly attitude toward “publicans and sinners” (see on v. Luke 15:2

KJV 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

CEV 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

). The remainder of the parable (vs. Luke 15:25-32

KJV 25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. 26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. 28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. 29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: 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. 31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. 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.

CEV 25 The older son had been out in the field. But when he came near the house, he heard the music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants over and asked, “What's going on here?” 27 The servant answered, “Your brother has come home safe and sound, and your father ordered us to kill the best calf.” 28 The older brother got so angry that he would not even go into the house. His father came out and begged him to go in. 29 But he said to his father, “For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends. 30 This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.” 31 His father replied, “My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we should be glad and celebrate! Your brother was dead, but he is now alive. He was lost and has now been found.”

) deals with the attitude of the Pharisees and scribes toward “sinners” (see on v. Luke 15:2

KJV 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

CEV 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

), as represented by the attitude of the elder brother toward the younger. This part of the parable was set forth as a rebuke to these self-righteous hypocrites for their “murmuring” at the way Jesus treated the outcasts of society (v. Luke 15:2

KJV 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

CEV 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

).

In the field.

He was at work, as a dutiful son should be (see Matthew 21:28-31

KJV 28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. 31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

CEV 28 Jesus said: I will tell you a story about a man who had two sons. Then you can tell me what you think. The father went to the older son and said, “Go work in the vineyard today!” 29 His son told him he would not do it, but later he changed his mind and went. 30 The man then told his younger son to go work in the vineyard. The boy said he would, but he didn't go. 31 Which one of the sons obeyed his father? “The older one,” the chief priests and leaders answered. Then Jesus told them: You can be sure tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you ever will!

). Similarly, the scribes and Pharisees were hard at work in the hope of earning the inheritance the heavenly Father bestows upon faithful sons. But they were serving God, not from love (see on Matthew 22:37

KJV 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

CEV 37 Jesus answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.

), but from a sense of duty and of earning righteousness by works. This same attitude had been true of their fathers in the days of Isaiah (see Isaiah 1:11-15

KJV 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

CEV 11 “Your sacrifices mean nothing to me. I am sick of your offerings of rams and choice cattle; I don't like the blood of bulls or lambs or goats. 12 “Who asked you to bring all this when you come to worship me? Stay out of my temple! 13 Your sacrifices are worthless, and your incense disgusting. I can't stand the evil you do on your New Moon Festivals or on your Sabbaths and other times of worship. 14 I hate your New Moon Festivals and all others as well. They are a heavy burden I am tired of carrying. 15 “No matter how much you pray, I won't listen. You are too violent.

) and of Malachi (see Mai. 1:12-14). In place of true obedience they offered God the counterfeit of meticulous adherence to the traditions of men (see on Mark 7:6-13

KJV 6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

CEV 6 Jesus replied: You are nothing but show-offs! The prophet Isaiah was right when he wrote that God had said, “All of you praise me with your words, but you never really think about me. 7 It is useless for you to worship me, when you teach rules made up by humans.” 8 You disobey God's commands in order to obey what humans have taught. 9 You are good at rejecting God's commands so that you can follow your own teachings! 10 Didn't Moses command you to respect your father and mother? Didn't he tell you to put to death all who curse their parents? 11 But you let people get by without helping their parents when they should. You let them say that what they own has been offered to God. 12 You won't let those people help their parents. 13 And you ignore God's commands in order to follow your own teaching. You do a lot of other things just as bad.

), blissfully ignoring the words of Samuel that “to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams” (1 Samuel 15:22

KJV 22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

CEV 22 “Tell me,” Samuel said. “Does the Lord really want sacrifices and offerings? No! He doesn't want your sacrifices. He wants you to obey him.

; cf. on Matthew 7:21-27

KJV 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

CEV (Luke 13. 26,27) 21 Not everyone who calls me their Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven. Only the ones who obey my Father in heaven will get in. 22 On the day of judgment many will call me their Lord. They will say, “We preached in your name, and in your name we forced out demons and worked many miracles.” 23 But I will tell them, “I will have nothing to do with you! Get out of my sight, you evil people!” (Luke 6. 47-49) 24 Anyone who hears and obeys these teachings of mine is like a wise person who built a house on solid rock. 25 Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and winds beat against that house. But it was built on solid rock, and so it did not fall. 26 Anyone who hears my teachings and doesn't obey them is like a foolish person who built a house on sand. 27 Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and the winds blew and beat against that house. Finally, it fell with a crash.

).

Musick.

Gr. sumphönia, literally, “unison of sound,” from which comes our English word “symphony.” Sumphönia may designate either a number of instruments or voices in unison or an instalment or voices in unison or an instalment resembling bagpipes (see on Daniel 3:5

KJV 5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

CEV 5 Trumpets, flutes, harps, and all other kinds of musical instruments will soon start playing. When you hear the music, you must bow down and worship the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

). The feast was probably provided with paid enteaainers. Evidently the father spared no efforts to make the return of his long-lost son the occasion for a grand celebration, news of which would certify to all in the town the restored status of the son.

Verse 28

Luke 15:28

KJV 28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

CEV 28 The older brother got so angry that he would not even go into the house. His father came out and begged him to go in.

He was angry.

As were the scribes and Pharisees toward Jesus (v. Luke 15:2

KJV 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

CEV 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

). The anger of the son stands forth in supreme contrast with the utter joy of the father (see on vs. Luke 15:20

KJV 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

CEV 20 The younger son got up and started back to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him.

, Luke 15:22

KJV 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

CEV 22 But his father said to the servants, “Hurry and bring the best clothes and put them on him. Give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet.

).

Would not go in.

According to the Greek, he persistently refused to do so even after repeated urging by his father in person.

Verse 29

Luke 15:29

KJV 29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

CEV 29 But he said to his father, “For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends.

I serve thee.

The trouble was that the older brother labored in the mood of a servant, rather than as a son. He claimed his father’s property by right, because he had earned it, and felt angry (v. Luke 15:28

KJV 28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

CEV 28 The older brother got so angry that he would not even go into the house. His father came out and begged him to go in.

) toward his father for not recognizing what he considered his rights as the elder son.

Neither transgressed.

He rigorously observed all the outward requirements made of dutiful sons, but knew nothing of the true spirit of obedience. His service was nothing more than servile compliance with the forms of filial piety.

Thou never gavest me a kid.

The Greek stresses “me” as though he said, “You never gave a kid to me." Whether the older brother realized it or not, he was jealous of the attention being shown his brother, and probably felt that all this attention should have been his instead. He complained about never having been rewarded with so much as a “kid,” to say nothing of a “fatted calf.” No doubt there also lurked in his heart the fear that the reinstatement of his younger brother might also mean that the father would bestow a portion of the estate--which was now legally the property of the older son (see on v. Luke 15:12

KJV 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.

CEV 12 The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons.

)--upon this wastrel brother. Perhaps the older brother here implied that even the fatted calf was legally his, and that his father had no right to use it or any other part of the property without his personal consent.

Make merry with my friends.

Here he seems to imply, further, that his lot in life had been a gloomy one and that he had more or less envied his brother the riotous time he had enjoyed. He had not been “merry” in serving his father; in fact, apparently he did not enjoy his father’s company, but preferred that of his “friends.”

Verse 30

Luke 15:30

KJV 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.

CEV 30 This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.”

This thy son.

An expression revealing contempt and sarcasm (see on chs. Luke 14:30

KJV 30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

CEV 30 They will say, “You started building, but could not finish the job.”

; Luke 15:2

KJV 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

CEV 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

). The older son disdains to own the younger son as his brother. Coldly he taunts his father by referring to his brother as “thy son.” Perhaps at heart he feels himself to be more righteous than either his father or his brother.

Hath devoured thy living.

See v. Luke 15:12

KJV 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.

CEV 12 The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons.

.

With harlots.

Whether the older brother knew this to be a fact concerning his younger brother or merely surmised that this had been the case is not stated.

Verse 31

Luke 15:31

KJV 31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

CEV 31 His father replied, “My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

Son.

Gr. teknon, “a child,” or “a son.” Here the father does not use the usual word for “son,” huios, but addresses the older brother with the more affectionate term, teknon. It is as if he had said, “my dear boy.”

Thou art ever with me.

The younger son had not been “ever” with him, and herein lay the difference for the immediate celebration. Compare the rejoicing of the shepherd over the one lost sheep as compared with that which he feels for the ones that had not strayed from the fold (see on vs. Luke 15:4

KJV 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

CEV 4 If any of you has 100 sheep, and one of them gets lost, what will you do? Won't you leave the 99 in the field and go look for the lost sheep until you find it?

, Luke 15:7

KJV 7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

CEV 7 Jesus said, “In the same way there is more happiness in heaven because of one sinner who turns to God than over 99 good people who don't need to.”

). However, the father goes on to point out his equal love for the older son, even if there had been no occasion for showing it by means of a celebration.

All that I have is thine.

At the time the father had “divided” his “living” and assigned to the younger son his portion, he had also turned over to the older son the double portion that fell to him by birthright (see on v. Luke 15:12

KJV 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.

CEV 12 The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons.

). The contention that the father had been stingy (v. Luke 15:29

KJV 29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

CEV 29 But he said to his father, “For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends.

) is proved false. The property was now the elder son’s, and he might have “made merry” with his friends had he chosen to do so. The father herein also assures him that his rights will in no way be impaired by the return of his brother. If it is this that troubles him, he may put away his fears and join in the celebration. One by one the father proves all the arguments advanced by the older son invalid and invites him to join in welcoming his brother (see on v. Luke 15:28

KJV 28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

CEV 28 The older brother got so angry that he would not even go into the house. His father came out and begged him to go in.

).

Verse 32

Luke 15:32

KJV 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.

CEV 32 But we should be glad and celebrate! Your brother was dead, but he is now alive. He was lost and has now been found.”

It was meet.

True, the younger son did not deserve the reception he had received, yet the father protests that it is fitting and proper to give boy a joyous welcome. The feast is not being given on the basis of merit; it is simply an expression of the father’s joy, and in this joy it was also “meet” that the older brother should participate. This, Jesus says, should be the attitude of the scribes and Pharisees toward sinners. The father’s affection for his long-lost younger son in no way diminished his love for the older son. His love included both of them in spite of their obvious failings. Fortunately the love of our heavenly Father is not based on how deserving we may be of it.

This thy brother.

In answer to the expression of contempt used by the older brother, “this thy son” (v. Luke 15:30

KJV 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.

CEV 30 This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.”

), the father uses an expression of tender entreaty, “thy brother.” In the pleading of the father with the older boy, Jesus represents His own pleading with the scribes and the Pharisees. He loves them fully as well as He does the “publicans and sinners” (vs. Luke 15:1-2

KJV 1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

CEV (Matthew 18. 12-14) 1 Tax collectors and sinners were all crowding around to listen to Jesus. 2 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”

). They need not take offense at His attitude toward these unfortunate outcasts of society. They need not fear for their own rights and privileges. But it is “meet” that they should change their attitude toward God and their fellow men. Compare the parable of the Good Samaritan (ch. Luke 10:25-37

KJV 25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? 27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. 28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. 29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? 30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. 36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? 37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

CEV 25 An expert in the Law of Moses stood up and asked Jesus a question to see what he would say. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to have eternal life?” 26 Jesus answered, “What is written in the Scriptures? How do you understand them?” 27 The man replied, “The Scriptures say, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind.’ They also say, ‘Love your neighbors as much as you love yourself.’ ” 28 Jesus said, “You have given the right answer. If you do this, you will have eternal life.” 29 But the man wanted to show that he knew what he was talking about. So he asked Jesus, “Who are my neighbors?” 30 Jesus replied: As a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, robbers attacked him and grabbed everything he had. They beat him up and ran off, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road. But when he saw the man, he walked by on the other side. 32 Later a temple helper came to the same place. But when he saw the man who had been beaten up, he also went by on the other side. 33 A man from Samaria then came traveling along that road. When he saw the man, he felt sorry for him 34 and went over to him. He treated his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put him on his own donkey and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. 35 The next morning he gave the innkeeper two silver coins and said, “Please take care of the man. If you spend more than this on him, I will pay you when I return.” 36 Then Jesus asked, “Which one of these three people was a real neighbor to the man who was beaten up by robbers?” 37 The expert in the Law of Moses answered, “The one who showed pity.” Jesus said, “Go and do the same!”

) and the experience of the rich young ruler (Matthew 19:16-22

KJV 16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. 22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

CEV (Mark 10. 17-31; Luke 18. 18-30) 16 A man came to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to have eternal life?” 17 Jesus said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? Only God is good. If you want to have eternal life, you must obey his commandments.” 18 “Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “Do not murder. Be faithful in marriage. Do not steal. Do not tell lies about others. 19 Respect your father and mother. And love others as much as you love yourself.” 20 The young man said, “I have obeyed all of these. What else must I do?” 21 Jesus replied, “If you want to be perfect, go sell everything you own! Give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come and be my follower.” 22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was very rich.

).

No hint is given as to whether the elder son amended his ways, or whether the younger son henceforth conducted himself honorably. Neither point was relevant to the lessons Jesus intended the parable to teach. In fact, the parable was still being enacted and the outcome rested on the hearers (see COL 209 [ID:1655506231787]).