The compassion of the father in Luke 15 is not polite. It is gut-level. Visceral. Bowels-deep. One Greek word changes how you read the whole chapter. Today we hear the whole letter.

In this letter

- The opening claim — Luke 15 is one chapter, three parables, one answer

- The party as the point of all three parables

- The Greek splanchnizomai (G4697) — gut-level compassion

- Where else this word shows up in the Gospels — Jesus and the crowds, the widow of Nain, the good Samaritan

- The father runs — and what running meant in the ancient world

- The older brother — the second lost son

- Why the chapter ends without resolution

- A direct word for the prodigal, the older brother, and the one who does not yet know the Father

Scripture

- Luke 15 ...