Luke 15:28
World English Bible (WEB)
But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
In context
26 He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on.
27 He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’
28 But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
29 But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
30 But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
Luke 15:28 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
- KJV King James Version
- And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with 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.