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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 15:32

It was meet. Compare Acts 11:18 . thy brother. Contrast with "thy son" (Luke 15:30 ). read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 15:32

But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again, and was lost, and is found.Thy brother ... In these words, the father brought the elder son back to the basic fact of his oneness with his brother, a unity denied by the contemptuous "thy son" (Luke 15:30), as the elder brother called him. All men are inherently sinful and unworthy of God's blessings; and there is no greater sin than the self-righteousness which denies such a truth.This marvelous story... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:31-32

Luke 15:31-32. And he said unto him, &c.— "But the father replied, Son, what cause is there forall this discontent, and all these murmuring complaints? you have constantly eaten at my table, which has been supplied with rich provisions every day, and have continually lived under the peculiar tokens of my favour; and I have still enough for you: but here is a fit occasion for expressing more than ordinary joy, in that your brother, whom I love, and you ought to love too, and who was given up... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 15:32

32. It was meet—Was it possible he should simply take his long vacant place in the family without one special sign of wonder and delight at the change? Would that have been nature? But this being the meaning of the festivity, it would for that very reason be temporary. In time, the dutifulness of even the younger son would become the law and not the exception; he too at length might venture to say, "Lo, these many years do I serve thee"; and of him the father would say, "Son, thou art ever with... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:11-32

4. The parable of the lost son 15:11-32This third parable in the series again repeats the point of the former two that God gladly receives repentant sinners, but it stresses still other information. The joy of the father in the first part of the parable contrasts with the grumbling of the elder brother in the second part. The love of the father was equal for both his sons. Thus the parable teaches that God wants all people to experience salvation and to enter the kingdom."This parable is often... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:25-32

The older brother 15:25-32 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:31-32

The father responded to the older son’s hostility with tenderness and reason. The Greek word teknon, translated "child" or "son," is a term of tender affection. The father stressed his older son’s privileged position as always enjoying his father’s company. This was a uniquely Jewish privilege that the nation’s religious leaders enjoyed particularly (cf. Romans 3:1-2; Romans 9:4). All that God had was Israel’s in the sense that they always had access to it because of the privileged relationship... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32

Parables of the Lost Sheep, of them Lost Coin, of the Prodigal Son1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12-13. The first of a series of three parables for the encouragement of penitents. It shows the love of our Saviour for the outcast, the despised, and the criminal classes generally. It rebukes the Pharisees, who professed to be shepherds, for their neglect of that part of the flock that most needed their help, and lastly it indicates that the Pharisees are in many respects worse... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 15:32

(32) It was meet that we should make merry.—The Greek expresses moral necessity rather than mere fitness. “We must needs rejoice;” it could not be otherwise. The repetition of the same words that had been used before, “he was dead . . .” is singularly-emphatic. This, and nothing more or less than this was the true account of the change that had passed over the wanderer; and this ought to be a source of joy to all his kindred. There is, perhaps, a touch of tenderness as well as reproof in the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Luke 15:1-32

The Approachableness of Christ Luke 15:1-2 This truth of the approachableness of Christ, the freeness with which He opened Himself to every needy and suffering soul, is not of subordinate importance, but of the very essence of His Gospel. It rests on the constitution of His Person. It is necessitated by the very fact of His being what He is, the man Christ Jesus, and by His having come to do what He declared to be the object of His mission. I. First of all, it rests upon the fact of His... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 15:32

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 15:32

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:31-32

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 15:32

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:11-32

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:25-32

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:31-32

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 15:32

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Luke 15:1-32

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