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Luke 15

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Luke 15 32 anchor verse rows · New Testament numbering · anchor KJV
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KJV Strong · 32 verses · 406 validated groups
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Passage research · Interpretive context · Reception history · Evidence audit · Dependency analysis

Evidence workspace for Luke 15

The research graph keeps literary observations, historical evidence, intertextual relationships, attributed scholarship, and Berean synthesis visibly separate from Scripture text while preserving textual, lexical, manuscript, and translation-study layers.

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Passage 1–32

Luke 15:1–32 — Lost, found, rejoicing, and two sons

22 linked records18 sources9 citations
Evidence boundary: Research relationships organize records; they do not merge Scripture text, editions/manuscripts, lexical evidence, historical evidence, scholar interpretation, or Berean synthesis into one authority or evidence class.
Scripture saysText, grammar, narration, or other directly observed textual data.
Historical evidence indicatesExternal/contextual evidence such as ancient texts, archaeology, inscriptions, custom, or material culture.
Scholar arguesAn attributed interpretation; reputation does not substitute for its evidence chain.
Berean synthesisOur evidence-weighted assessment, with uncertainty and counterevidence left visible.
Connected evidence0 evidence entities · 13 claim recordsBounded to explicit stored relationship paths; provenance sources are not used as graph bridges.
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Textual evidenceVariants, readings, and manuscript records

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Historical evidence & contextHistorical, cultural, archaeological, documentary, and social-context evidence
Intertextual & canonical relationshipsTyped quotation, echo, thematic-parallel, and possible-allusion records; similarity alone does not prove dependence
Interpretations & synthesisAttributed scholar arguments and Berean assessments kept distinct from primary evidence and from each other
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Sources & provenanceTraceable source records and citations used by this passage research graph
18 source records · 9 citations
King James Version 1769 standardized text, protocanonSRC_KJV1769 · Public Domain outside the United Kingdom; UK Crown/letters-patent caveat
Berean Standard BibleSRC_BSB · Public Domain
World English Bible, 66-book updated/protocanon editionSRC_WEB · Public Domain; World English Bible name is a trademark and modified text should not retain the name
SBL Greek New Testament v1.2SRC_SBLGNT · CC BY 4.0
Greek Textus Receptus with Adam Boyd manuscript annotationsSRC_GRCTR · Public Domain
Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament 2018SRC_GRCMT · Public Domain
Nicholas Lunn — Parables of the Lost? Rhetorical Structure and the Section Headings of Luke 15SRC_LUNN_2009_LUKE15_STRUCTURE · Publisher copyright; bibliographic metadata, brief quotation, and claim-level summary only
Ernest van Eck — In the kingdom everybody has enough: A social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the lost sheep (Luke 15:4–6)SRC_VAN_ECK_2011_LOST_SHEEP · Creative Commons Attribution (journal page identifies CC BY; current journal policy states CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise stated)
Greg W. Forbes — Repentance and Conflict in the Parable of the Lost Son (Luke 15:11–32)SRC_FORBES_1999_LUKE15 · Copyrighted journal article; linked/cited, no local article-text redistribution asserted
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible / Westminster Leningrad CodexSRC_OSHB_WLC · WLC base public domain; OSHB work CC BY 4.0
Greek Septuagint / LXX (eBible GRCLXX)SRC_GRCLXX · Public Domain
Brenton English SeptuagintSRC_BRENTON_LXX_EN · Public Domain
Daniel K. Eng — The Widening Circle: Honour, Shame, and Collectivism in the Parable of the Prodigal SonSRC_ENG_2019_LUKE15 · All rights reserved; bibliographic metadata/abstract/claim summary only
Christian Classics Ethereal Library — Augustine, ConfessionsSRC_CCEL_AUGUSTINE_CONFESSIONS · Public Domain (CCEL metadata for the Pusey Confessions edition)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library — John Calvin, Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists, Volume 2SRC_CCEL_CALVIN_HARMONY_VOL2 · Public Domain (CCEL edition metadata)
Tertullian.org — Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on Luke, Sermon 107 (Payne Smith 1859 English translation)SRC_TERTULLIAN_CYRIL_LUKE_SERMON107 · Underlying 1859 English translation is public domain in the United States; website presentation/transcription is linked rather than mirrored
Christian Classics Ethereal Library — Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Luke 15SRC_CCEL_MATTHEW_HENRY_LUKE15 · Underlying early-18th-century work is public domain in the United States; CCEL presentation is linked rather than mirrored
Christian Classics Ethereal Library — John Wesley, Notes on the Bible, Luke 15SRC_CCEL_WESLEY_NOTES_LUKE15 · Public Domain (CCEL metadata)
Nicholas Lunn, “Parables of the Lost? Rhetorical Structure and the Section Headings of Luke 15,” The Bible Translator 60.3 (2009): 158–164.CIT_LUNN_2009_LUKE15_STRUCTURE
Ernest van Eck, “In the kingdom everybody has enough — A social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the lost sheep (Lk 15:4–6),” HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 67.3 (2011), Art. #1067.CIT_VAN_ECK_2011_LOST_SHEEP
Greg W. Forbes, “Repentance and Conflict in the Parable of the Lost Son (Luke 15:11–32),” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 42.2 (1999): 211–229.CIT_FORBES_1999_LUKE15
Daniel K. Eng, “The Widening Circle: Honour, Shame, and Collectivism in the Parable of the Prodigal Son,” The Expository Times 130.5 (2019): 193–201.CIT_ENG_2019_LUKE15
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, Book VIII, chapter 3, English trans. Edward B. Pusey, CCEL public-domain edition.CIT_AUGUSTINE_CONFESSIONS_8_3_LUKE15
John Calvin, Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, vol. 2, trans. William Pringle, sections on Luke 15:11–24 and Luke 15:25–32, CCEL public-domain edition.CIT_CALVIN_LUKE15_11_32
Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on the Gospel according to Luke, Sermon CVII on Luke 15:11–32, trans. R. Payne Smith (Oxford, 1859), from an ancient Syriac version with Greek catena supplementation.CIT_CYRIL_LUKE_SERMON107
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Luke 15, early eighteenth century, CCEL electronic edition.CIT_MATTHEW_HENRY_LUKE15
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, Luke 15, public-domain CCEL edition.CIT_WESLEY_NOTES_LUKE15
Cross-referencesCurated passage relationships, not proof of quotation, dependence, fulfillment, or identical meaning

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Septuagint source

GRCLXX stays identified.

The Greek LXX column is the public-domain eBible GRCLXX edition. LXX-only books are exposed by their actual corpus book IDs, and Brenton can be shown beside the Greek as a separate historical English translation.

Word study

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Hebrew uses OSHB lemma numbers for Bible-wide occurrence searching and can display provenance-labelled TBESH and historical Strong lexical witnesses when locally available. SBLGNT exposes verified MorphGNT lemma/morphology tags and lemma occurrences. A separate Open Scriptures LXX lemma reference concordance shows where the same lemma is indexed in the Septuagint without pretending those records are token-aligned to GRCLXX; direct GRCLXX clicks remain same-written-form until edition-specific tagging is verified.

Reference alignment

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For the 39-book Old Testament, the reader uses a TVTMS-derived MT/LXX/English reference bridge. Explicit mappings may pull a comparison cell from a different chapter/verse and show that mapped coordinate above the text. In structurally divergent MT/LXX books, unresolved table misses are refused rather than guessed. The bridge maps numbering traditions only—it never turns GRCLXX, WLC/OSHB, or an English translation into the same textual witness.