Luke 15:16

New American Bible - revised edition

And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any.

Cross References

Job 30:4

They plucked saltwort and shrubs; the roots of the broom plant were their food.

Psalm 142:4

When my spirit is faint within me, you know my path. As I go along this path, they have hidden a trap for me.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and could not understand; I was like a brute beast in your presence.

Isaiah 44:20

He is chasing ashes! A deluded mind has led him astray; He cannot save himself, does not say, “This thing in my right hand—is it not a fraud?”

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not satisfy? Only listen to me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies are abandoned in the streets; Those who reclined on crimson now embrace dung heaps.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, the house of Israel, with deceit; Judah still wanders about with gods, and is faithful to holy ones.

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces. The Answer to Prayers.

Luke 15:15

So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine.

Luke 15:17

Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger.