Luke 15:16

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Now he wanted to fill his stomach with the [carob] pods the hogs were eating, but no one gave him any [or perhaps, anything else].

Cross References

Matthew 7:6

“Do not offer sacred things to dogs, and do not throw your pearls in front of [wild] pigs [i.e., to those who will not appreciate them], because they will probably trample on them with their feet and then turn around and attack you.

Luke 15:15

So, he went to work for one of the citizens of that country who sent him to his fields to feed his hogs.

Luke 15:17

But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread to eat, and here I am, dying from hunger!