Luke 15:16

World Messianic Bible British Edition

He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

Cross References

Job 30:4

They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.

Psalm 142:4

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Psalm 73:22

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Isaiah 57:3

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Matthew 7:6

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Luke 15:15

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Luke 15:17

But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!