Luke 15:17 (YLT)

Passage

`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

Nearby Context

Luke 15:15 and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

Luke 15:16 and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

Luke 15:17 `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

Luke 15:18 having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee,

Luke 15:19 and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "having", "come", "himself", "said", "hirelings", "father", "superabundance", and "bread". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "having" and "come", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 16's "and he was desirous to fill his..." into verse 18's "having risen I will go on unto...", so "having" and "come" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "having" and "come" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.