the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Luke 15:15
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And he went and clave to a citesyn of yt same countre which sent him to his felde to kepe his swyne.
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
"So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
So he got a job with one of the citizens there who sent the son into the fields to feed pigs.
And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
"So he went and forced himself on one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields, to feed swine.
So he went and hired himself to one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him on to his farm to tend swine;
And he wente, and drouy hym to oon of the citeseyns of that cuntre. And he sente hym in to his toun, to fede swyn.
And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
He went to work for a man in that country, and the man sent him out to take care of his pigs.
And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.
"So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he went and joined himself to one of the sons of the city of that place; and he sent him into the field to tend the swine.
And he went and connected himself with one of the citizens of that place: and he sent him into the field to tend swine.
And he went and ioyned himselfe to a citizen of that countrey, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
He went to work for a man in this far away country. His work was to feed pigs.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.
Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.
So he went and got acquainted with one of the men of the city of that country; and he sent him to the field to feed the swine.
And he went his way, and joined himself unto one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to be feeding swine.
And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.
So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he ioyned hym selfe to a citizen of that countrey: and he sent hym to his farme, to feede swyne.
So he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him out to his farm to take care of the pigs.
Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.
And going, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,
and wente his waye, and claue to a cytesin of that same countre, which sent him in to his felde, to kepe swyne.
and he was reduced to want, which forc'd him to make his application to one of the inhabitants there, who sent him to his farm to look after his swine.
The Story of the Lost Sheep By this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently. The Pharisees and religion scholars were not pleased, not at all pleased. They growled, "He takes in sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends." Their grumbling triggered this story. "Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and lost one. Wouldn't you leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until you found it? When found, you can be sure you would put it across your shoulders, rejoicing, and when you got home call in your friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Celebrate with me! I've found my lost sheep!' Count on it—there's more joy in heaven over one sinner's rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in no need of rescue. "Or imagine a woman who has ten coins and loses one. Won't she light a lamp and scour the house, looking in every nook and cranny until she finds it? And when she finds it you can be sure she'll call her friends and neighbors: ‘Celebrate with me! I found my lost coin!' Count on it—that's the kind of party God's angels throw every time one lost soul turns to God." Then he said, "There was once a man who had two sons. The younger said to his father, ‘Father, I want right now what's coming to me.' "So the father divided the property between them. It wasn't long before the younger son packed his bags and left for a distant country. There, undisciplined and dissipated, he wasted everything he had. After he had gone through all his money, there was a bad famine all through that country and he began to hurt. He signed on with a citizen there who assigned him to his fields to slop the pigs. He was so hungry he would have eaten the corncobs in the pig slop, but no one would give him any. "That brought him to his senses. He said, ‘All those farmhands working for my father sit down to three meals a day, and here I am starving to death. I'm going back to my father. I'll say to him, Father, I've sinned against God, I've sinned before you; I don't deserve to be called your son. Take me on as a hired hand.' He got right up and went home to his father. "When he was still a long way off, his father saw him. His heart pounding, he ran out, embraced him, and kissed him. The son started his speech: ‘Father, I've sinned against God, I've sinned before you; I don't deserve to be called your son ever again.' "But the father wasn't listening. He was calling to the servants, ‘Quick. Bring a clean set of clothes and dress him. Put the family ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Then get a grain-fed heifer and roast it. We're going to feast! We're going to have a wonderful time! My son is here—given up for dead and now alive! Given up for lost and now found!' And they began to have a wonderful time. "All this time his older son was out in the field. When the day's work was done he came in. As he approached the house, he heard the music and dancing. Calling over one of the houseboys, he asked what was going on. He told him, ‘Your brother came home. Your father has ordered a feast—barbecued beef!—because he has him home safe and sound.' "The older brother stalked off in an angry sulk and refused to join in. His father came out and tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen. The son said, ‘Look how many years I've stayed here serving you, never giving you one moment of grief, but have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends? Then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on whores shows up and you go all out with a feast!' "His father said, ‘Son, you don't understand. You're with me all the time, and everything that is mine is yours—but this is a wonderful time, and we had to celebrate. This brother of yours was dead, and he's alive! He was lost, and he's found!'"
So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
The young cowboy persuaded a farmer to let him take care of his pigs.
"So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he went: Luke 15:13, Exodus 10:3, 2 Chronicles 28:22, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:10-13, Isaiah 57:17, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 8:4-6, Jeremiah 31:18, Jeremiah 31:19, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:26, Revelation 2:21, Revelation 2:22
to feed: Luke 8:32-34, Ezekiel 16:52, Ezekiel 16:63, Nahum 3:6, Malachi 2:9, Romans 1:24-26, Romans 6:22, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 2:3, Ephesians 4:17-19, Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:12, Colossians 3:5-7, Titus 3:3
Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:7 - swine Deuteronomy 14:8 - the swine Deuteronomy 23:16 - shall dwell Psalms 32:3 - When Isaiah 55:2 - do ye Matthew 8:30 - an
Cross-References
After all these things happened, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. God said, "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you and give you a great reward."
But Abram said, "Lord God , there is nothing you can give me that will make me happy, because I have no son. My slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."
He said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you from Ur of Babylonia. I did this so that I could give you this land. You will own this land."
God said to Abram, "We will make an agreement. Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pigeon."
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You should know this: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for 400 years.
After four generations your people will come to this land again and defeat the Amorites. That will happen in the future because the Amorites are not yet guilty enough to lose their land."
This is the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
"I am only a foreigner staying in your country. I have no place to bury my wife. Please give me some land so that I can bury her."
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of that field near Mamre (Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Then Isaac became weak and died and went to be with his people. He had lived a long and full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country,.... Not to any one of the saints, for they are not citizens of the far country, but of the church of God below, and of heaven above; besides, carnal men do not like the company of such citizens: nor is the devil intended, for though he dwells in this country, he is more than a citizen, than an inhabitant; he is king and governor, the prince of the world, and the god of it; nor is it feasible, that a man under conviction, and beginning to be sensible of his want, should go and join himself to the devil: but an unregenerate, "pharisaical", legal preacher, is designed; a man may be a preacher, and yet in the far country of sin and unregeneracy; there may be large gifts, where there is no grace; and a man may have a form of religion and godliness, and know nothing of the power of it; and a great stir and bluster may be made about good works, as were by the Pharisees, when few or none are done: now it is common for persons under legal convictions, to seek after such a preacher, and such a ministry, and to such an one this man "went"; he went not out of the land of sin, nor to his father's house, but to one in the same country, where the famine was, and he was starving: "he went"; it was his own choice, he took his own way; he went and told him his case, how he had spent all he had, and in what manner, and what condition he now was in; and he asked his advice and assistance: and he "joined himself" to him; he sat under his ministry, and became a member with him, and stuck close to him, as the word signifies; and was a stickler for him, and his principles:
and he sent him into his field to feed swine; he did not give him the least bit of bread to satisfy his hunger; nor did he say one word to him of Christ, the bread of life; nor did he advise him to go to his father's house, where there was bread enough, and to spare: but he "sent him, into his fields"; to work, to cleanse his heart, to reform his life, to fulfil the law, to perform the conditions of the covenant, to make his peace with God, and get an interest in his love and favour; and go through a round of duties continually, and all would be well: he sent him to "feed swine" there; to converse with self-righteous persons, who may be compared to swine, because of their selfishness; doing all they do for themselves, and not for God and his glory; because they prefer dung before pearls, their own righteousness before Christ, the pearl of great price; and live upon the husks of their own duties and never look upwards to heaven, as this creature does not, but always downwards on the earth; and though they were outwardly reformed, yet inwardly filthy, and often return to wallowing in the mire again: he sent him there also to gratify the selfish principles of nature; to please himself with his wisdom, righteousness, holiness, and other excellencies he fancied he had attained unto. In short, the expression shows the base employment of a self-justitiary amidst all his pretensions to religion and virtue: for feeding of swine was very disagreeable to the Jews, and with them scandalous; to whom the eating of swine's flesh was forbidden by the law of God, and the breeding of swine by their traditions; and this is said to be done in a country, out of Judea.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Joined himself - Entered the service of that citizen. Hired himself out to him. It would seem that he engaged to do any kind of work, even of the lowest kind.
A citizen - One of the inhabitants of one of the cities or towns of that region, probably a man of property.
Into the fields - Out of the city where the owner lived.
To feed swine - This was a very low employment, and particularly so to a “Jew.” It was forbidden to the Jews to eat swine, and of course it was unlawful to keep them. To be compelled, therefore, to engage in such an employment was the deepest conceivable degradation. The “object” of this image, as used by the Saviour in the parable, is to show the loathsome employments and the deep degradation to which sin leads people, and no circumstance could possibly illustrate it in a more striking manner than he has done here. Sin and its results everywhere have the same relation to that which is noble and great, which the feeding of swine had, in the estimation of a Jew, to an honorable and dignified employment.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Luke 15:15. To feed swine. — The basest and vilest of all employments; and, to a Jew, peculiarly degrading. Shame, contempt, and distress are wedded to sin, and can never be divorced. No character could be meaner in the sight of a Jew than that of a swineherd: and Herodotus informs us, that in Egypt they were not permitted to mingle with civil society, nor to appear in the worship of the gods, nor would the very dregs of the people have any matrimonial connections with them. HEROD. lib. ii. cap. 47.
