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Butδὲhe became angryὠργίσθηandκαὶwas notοὐκwillingἤθελενto go in.εἰσελθεῖνAndδὲhis fatherὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦcame outἐξελθὼνandwas pleading withπαρεκάλειhim.αὐτόν
Luke 15:28
Study it in the app“But he became angry and was not willing to go in. And his father came out and was pleading with him.”
With the Greek beneath
Luke 15:28, word by word
- he became angryὠργίσθηōrgisthē
be angry
Be angry.
Where else “ōrgisthē” appears- willingἤθελενēthelen
want
To have the desire or the resolve for something.
Where else “ēthelen” appears- to go inεἰσελθεῖνeiselthein
enter
To go into a house, a town or a place.
Where else “eiselthein” appears- his fatherπατὴρpatēr
parents
A family's father; sometimes father and mother.
Where else “patēr” appears- came outἐξελθὼνexelthōn
go out
To leave the place where one was and go outside or elsewhere.
Where else “exelthōn” appears- was pleading withπαρεκάλειparekalei
beg
To call someone to your side, implore them.
Where else “parekalei” appears
The context
27And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’
28 · This verse (above)
29But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look, so many years I have been slaving for you, and I never broke your command, and to me you never gave a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends;
To study Luke 15 in a group
1. What it says
What does the father do when he sees the younger son returning from far away, and what does the older son do when he finds out? (vv. 20-30)
2. What it means
The three parables are about something lost that is found. What do the shepherd, the woman and the father have in common? (vv. 4-10, 20-24)
3. How I live it
The older son was angry about the feast, and his father pleaded with him to come in. With whom do you find it hard to rejoice today? (vv. 28-32)