22. The best robe Literally, the first robe; that is, the first in quality of the whole. Robe… ring… shoes These investments betoken the bestowing of the endowments and prerogatives of the child of God. read more
23. The fatted calf Which had been reserved, by the father’s hospitality, for some special occasion, as the delicacy of the season. read more
24. Dead… alive The metaphors of death and life, to express ruin and recovery, can be found in various languages. Thus Cicero at his return to Rome after banishment says, in a public address to the city, that he is recalled from death to life; from despair to hope; from destruction to safety. read more
25. Was in the field Rather , at labour; but he strangely does not appear; or, at any rate, no one seems to have thought it necessary to notify him of the common joy. Music and dancing According to the custom of the ancients, this may be supposed to be a hired concert of musicians and dancers. read more
28. Angry… would not go in Our Lord now holds up to the murmuring Pharisees of Luke 15:2 a likeness of themselves for them to recognize and avoid. As the elder son is angry at the joy which welcomes the prodigal home from his wanderings, so have these men murmured at the mercy with which Jesus has received the publican and the sinner. Came his father out and entreated As God now, by Jesus, entreats these doctors of Israel not to spurn the outcast publicans and sinners who may be induced to... read more
29. Do I serve thee The word serve here is the service of a slave, and hence some have held it as characterizing the Pharisee’s devotion to God. A kid Far inferior to the fatted calf. read more
29, 30. In these two verses our Lord gives, in parable, the substance of the Pharisaic murmur. We are the piety of the nation; and for us should be reserved all the respect and deference which the professed prophet of God has to pay. But us have you deserted, and given all your interest and labour to these publicans, who have prostituted their birthright to the service of a heathen power. read more
31. All I have is thine Thou art still my son; thou hast not been disinherited; what I have is still within my reach as ever. The captious Scribes and Pharisees were still in Church relations ever with God. Yet they were forfeiting their organic sonship by being, like this sons angry because Jesus was calling the wanderers home. And mark that the son in the parable stays without; and without the parable leaves him. After the parable has thus fulfilled its immediate object, it may be... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:21
21. The son said He attempts to repeat the confession he had meditated; but before he is through, his father’s love smothers his words. So does God hasten to bless the earnest prayer of the heart, before the utterance of the lips. No more worthy to be called thy son Very properly does he take the place of a hired servant, for he has forfeited his sonship. And every one of the hired servants in the house has a sonship in the background. If this parable were to be acted over again and again,... read more