When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 15:14 in context
Luke 15:11–17
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He said, “A certain man had two sons.
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The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.
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Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
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When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
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He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
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He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
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But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
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