Luke 15:28 - English Majority Text Version 2009

²⁸ But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and began to plead with him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ But [the elder brother] was angry [with deep-seated wrath] and resolved not to go in. Then his father came out and began to plead with him,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father came out, and entreated him.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Then the older son was furious and didn’t want to enter in, but his father came out and begged him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ Then he became indignant, and he was unwilling to enter. Therefore, his father, going out, began to plead with him.

Luke 15:28 Cross References

Matthew 20:11

And when they had received it, they began grumbling against the landowner,

Mark 1:40

Then a leper came to Him, beseeching Him, kneeling before Him and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You are able to cleanse me."

Luke 13:34

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

Luke 15:2

And the Pharisees and scribes were grumbling, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."

Luke 15:27

And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and because he has received him back in good health, your father has killed the fatted calf.'

Luke 15:29

So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, so many years I have been serving you and I never transgressed your commandment; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Luke 5:30

And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, "Why do You eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

Luke 7:39

Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke within himself, saying, "This [Man], if He were a prophet, would know who and what sort of woman [this is] who touches Him, for she is a sinner."

Acts 13:45

And the Jews, seeing the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and spoke against the things being said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the devout and prominent women and the leading [men] of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out from their borders.

Acts 14:19

But there arrived from Antioch and Iconium [certain ]Jews, and having persuaded the crowds and having stoned Paul, they dragged [him] outside the city, thinking he was dead.

Acts 14:2

But the disbelieving Jews aroused and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

Romans 10:19

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by [those who are] not a nation, by a foolish nation I will anger you."

2 Corinthians 5:20

Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

forbidding us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up [the measure of] their sins; but the wrath [of God ]has come upon them to the uttermost.