Luke 15:24

Translations

Modern

For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

Traditional

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

Literal

…because this son of mine was dead and lived again! He was lost and was found!’ And they began to be merry.

Latin

…quia hic filius meus mortuus erat, et revixit: perierat, et inventus est. Et cœperunt epulari.

Original

Greek

English

For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

Notes

Luke 15:11–32

Like the previous two parables (15:3–7, 8–10), the parable of the lost son demonstrates God’s love for the lost and the joy God experiences when they return. It also reflects the ministry of Jesus. The father represents God, the younger son represents the tax collectors and sinners Jesus welcomed, and the older son represents the religious leaders.

Luke 15:1–32

Chapter 15 contains three related parables of things lost and found:

a sheep (15:1–7),
a coin (15:8–10), and
a son (15:11–32).

The loss of something loved causes deep sorrow, whereas finding it brings great joy. There is great rejoicing in heaven when lost sinners return to their heavenly Father.

Theme notes and profiles

Celebration Compassionate Healer God’s Covenant Love

Events

Teaching and Healing in Perea to Jerusalemc. AD 30

Related verses

Ephesians 2:5
…made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
Ezekiel 34:16
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Colossians 2:13
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
Luke 15:4
“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
Ephesians 2:1
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Luke 15:32
But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
Romans 6:11
So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Luke 15:7–9
I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
2 Corinthians 5:14–15
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
Isaiah 35:10
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

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