Luke 15:16 meaning and explanation
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
Luke 15:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus is telling the parable of the two sons to Pharisees and scribes who grumbled that he welcomed sinners (verses 1 to 3). The younger son has wasted his inheritance in a distant country and hired himself out to feed pigs, a degrading job for a Jewish man.
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