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John Gill
And when he came to himself,.... An unregenerate man, whether while a voluptuous man, or a self-righteous man, is not himself; he is beside himself; and is no other than a madman. The man that pursues his worldly lusts and pleasures, promises himself liberty, while he is a slave; he ruins himself, his soul, body, and estate, and chooses to do it rather than part with his lusts; he takes delight...
Matthew Henry
Evil manners, we say, beget good laws; so, in this chapter, the murmuring of the scribes and Pharisees at the grace of Christ, and the favour he showed to publicans and sinners, gave occasion for a more full discovery of that grace than perhaps otherwise we should have had in these three parables which we have in this chapter, the scope of all of which is the same, to show, not only what God had...
Charles H. Spurgeon
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! “My father’s day-labourers have bread enough and to spare, yet I, his child, perish with hunger.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat. and no man gave unto him. 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! “I, his son, perish with hunger, when there is not only enough in my father’s house for his children, but for his hirelings, too; ay, and some to spare after...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he came to himself, — For sin is insanity. He was out of his mind while he was acting so foolishly: “When he came to himself,”
Charles H. Spurgeon
He said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. It was the knowledge that there was plenty in his father’s house that led him back; and you may...
Charles H. Spurgeon
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! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way...