Luke 15:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ And he said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed that [wheat-]fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and well.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

Common English Bible

²⁷ The servant replied, ‘Your brother has arrived, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he received his son back safe and sound.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And he said to him: 'Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safely.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And he said to him: Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe.

Luke 15:27 Cross References

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’

Luke 15:26

And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant.

Luke 15:28

But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!’

Acts 22:13

came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And in that very hour I received my sight and saw him.

Acts 9:17

So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Philemon 1:16

no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

1 Samuel 28:24

Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour, and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,