Luke 15:28
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
In context
26 So he called one of the servants and asked what was going on.
27 ‘Your brother has returned,’ he said, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’
28 The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
29 But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
30 But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
Luke 15:28 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
- KJV King James Version
- And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
- WEB World English Bible
- But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father came out, and entreated him.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;
- DBY Darby Translation
- But he became angry and would not go in. And his father went out and besought him.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he was angry, and would not go in; therefore his father came out, and entreated him.