“He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Luke 15 contains 32 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.