Luke 2, verse by verse ...

[angelwind]

Luke 15:27

And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.'

 

[barb754]

Luke 15:28 (KJV) And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

 

[meh]

Luke 15:29

And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

 

[Jesusfan4ever]

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!'

 

[doc329]

John 14:21 (KJV)
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

 

[Jesusfan4ever]

Luke 14:22

"'Sir', the servant said, 'what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.'

 

[doc329]

Luke 14:23 (KJV)
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

 

[Jesusfan4ever]

Luke 14:24

I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.'"

 

[angelwind]

Luke 14:25

Now great multitudes were going along with Him; and He trned and said to them,

 

[doc329]

Luke 14:26 (KJV)
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

 

[Jesusfan4ever]

Luke 14:27

And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

 

[barb754]

Luke 14:28 (KJV)
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

 

[doc329]

Luke 14:29 (KJV)
Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

 

[GaelSong]

Luke 14:30 NRSV

saying, "This fellow began to build and was not able to finish."

 

[Jesusfan4ever]

Luke 14:31

"Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

 

[meh]

Luke 14:32

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

 

[Glenda]

Luk 14:33 So then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple.

 

[doc329]

Luke 14:34 (KJV)
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

 

[Jesusfan4ever]

Luke 14:35

It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

 

[doc329]

Luke 15:1 (KJV)
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.