Luke Chapter 15 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 15:23

and bring the fatted calf, `and' kill it, and let us eat, and make merry:
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BBE Luke 15:23

And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.
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DARBY Luke 15:23

and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:
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KJV Luke 15:23

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
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WBT Luke 15:23


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WEB Luke 15:23

Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
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YLT Luke 15:23

and having brought the fatted calf, kill `it', and having eaten, we may be merry,
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Luke 15 : 23 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 23, 24. - And bring hither the fatted calf. There was a custom in the large Palestinian farms that always a calf should be fattening ready for festal occasions. And let us eat... And they began to be merry. Who are intended by these plurals, us and they? We must not forget that the parable-story under the mortal imagery is telling of heavenly as well as of earthly things. The sharers in their joy over the lost, the servants of the prodigal's father on earth, are doubtless the angels of whom we hear (vers. 7, 10), in the two former parables of the lost sheep and of the lost drachma, as rejoicing over the recovery of a lost soul.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Bring hither the fatted calf.--It is interesting to remember the impression which this part of the parable made on one of the great teachers of the Church as early as the second century. Irenaeus (see Introduction) saw in it an illustration of what seemed to him the special characteristic of St. Luke's Gospel, viz., the stress which it lays on the priestly aspect of our Lord's work and ministry. We note, after our more modern method, (1) that in the framework of the story, the definite article points to "the calf" that had been fattened as for some special feast of joy. It answers accordingly to the "feast of fat things" of Isaiah 25:6 - i.e., to the joy of the full fruition of the presence of God; and there is, perhaps, in the command to "kill it" (the word used is the technical one for slaying a sacrificial victim) a half-suggestion that this was only possible through a sacrifice and death. The fatted calf thus comes to represent to us that of which the Eucharistic feast is at once a symbol, a witness, and a pledge.