Luke 15:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

Cross References

Psalm 150:4

Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.’

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with your tambourines and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance;

Psalm 149:3

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.

Psalm 126:1

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

2 Samuel 6:14

David danced before the Lord with all his might; David was girded with a linen ephod.

Exodus 15:20

Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.

Psalm 30:11

You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Luke 15:24

for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:26

He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on.