Luke 15:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 forth other servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, Behold, I have made ready my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage feast.

Luke 15:26

And he called to him one of the servants, and inquired what these things might be.

Luke 15:28

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

Luke 15:30

but when this thy son came, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.

Acts 22:13

came unto me, and standing by me said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And in that very hour I looked up on him.

Acts 9:17

And Ananias departed, and entered into the house; and laying his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared unto thee in the way which thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Philemon 1:16

no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

1 Samuel 28:24

And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof: