Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Common sense teaches men not to begin any costly work without first seeing that they have the wherewithal to finish it. And he who does otherwise exposes himself to general ridicule.
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The Man with the Dropsy Healed on the Sabbath. (Luke 14:1)_ 2. The Wisdom of Humility. (Luke 14:7) 3. Recompensed in Resurrection. (Luke 14:12) 4. The Parable of the Great Supper. ...
DISCIPLESHIP AND ITS COST. The passage is a reminder that, despite the universality of the Kingdom, the number of its true subjects is small. To the crowd that is following Him Jesus applies a stringe...
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
Great crowds were on the way with Jesus. He turned and said to them, "If any man comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own...
SAYING, &c.. Saying that this man, &c. See note on Luke 4:21; Luke 19:9; Mark 14:30, &c....
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
LESSONS OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS, AND OF COUNTING THE COST; THE TOWER-BUILDER; THE WARRING KING; THE SAVOURLESS SALT...
Ver 28. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29. Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not ab...
_THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP -- LUKE 14:25-35:_ Large crowds often accompanied Jesus as He traveled about. Jesus taught the cost of discipleship saying, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, a...
ΛΈΓΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part., см._ Luke 14:7. Part, объясняет насмешки, ΟΎΤΟΣ этот человек, уничижительное, используется с сарказмом или издевательски, ΉΡΞΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.)_, с _inf., см._ L...
DISCOURSE: 1541 THE FOOLISH BUILDER AND THE INCONSIDERATE KING Luke 14:28. Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Grounded (Luke 14:25-35) 25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and...
10 Compare Pro_25:6-7. 12 The pure joy of giving is largely lost when it degenerates into a trade. Yet it seems from this that we cannot give without being recompensed. If we give to get we may, indee...
THAT WE MUST GIVE UP ALL TO FOLLOW CHRIST, AND COUNT THE COST BEFORE WE DO SO. The two parables of the Rash Builder (Luke 14:28) and the Rash King (Luke 14:31) are peculiar to Lk. The multitude who fo...
THE DROPSICAL MAN. THE GREAT SUPPER. DIVERS SAYINGS AND PARABLES 1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk)....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JESUS *HEALS A MAN ON THE *SABBATH 14:1-6 V1 One *Sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the more important *Pharisees. They were watch...
(28-30) WHICH OF YOU, INTENDING TO BUILD A TOWER..? — The words do not depend for their meaning on any local or personal allusion, but it is quite possible that their force may have been heightened fo...
_Parables illustrating the need of counting the cost_, peculiar to Lk., but intrinsically probable as sayings of Jesus, and thoroughly germane to the foregoing discourse. The connection is: It is a se...
_Concio ad populum_. Jesus now appears on the way, and followed by “many multitudes” (ὄχλοι πολλοί, Luke 14:25) to whom He speaks. Thus sayings which in Mt. and Mk. form part of disciple-instruction ...
THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP Luke 14:25-35 Here we have our Lord's use of the winnowing-fan. Amid the teeming crowds He knew that there were many light and superficial souls who had not realized the cos...
Nothing escaped the notice of Jesus. He saw the guests in the house, and their method of procedure in seeking the chief seats. As He watched, He enunciated two great truths of social application. Firs...
CHRISTIAN PERFECTION Luke 14:28-30. “ _For which one of you_, _wishing to build a tower_, _does not first_, _sitting down_, _count the cost_, _if he has unto sufficiency_? _Lest he_, _having laid the...
HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:2-34; & Luke 14:3-35 Mark: “And immediately coming out of the synagogue? came into the house of Simon and Andrew and James and John. The mother...
4. _A Warning against hasty Professions: Luke 14:25-35_. The journey resumes its course; great crowds follow Jesus. There is consequently an attraction to His side. This appears in the plurals ὄχλοι,...
_The Improvident Builder._ Building here is the image of the Christian life, regarded in its positive aspect: the foundation and development of the work of God in the heart and life of the believer. T...
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient...
_TOWER BUILDING_ ‘For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost.… This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’ Luke 14:28; Luke 14:30 In the p...
Some moral details are unfolded in the next chapter (14). [37] The Lord, being invited to eat with a Pharisee, vindicates the rights of grace over that which was the seal of the old covenant, judging...
SAYING, THIS MAN BEGAN TO BUILD,.... He set out well, he promised great things, and made a considerable bluster and stir, as if he would carry things at once to a very high pitch: AND WAS NOT ABLE TO...
_Which of you, intending to build a tower_, (the word πυργος here signifying the same as the Hebrew _migdol_, seems to denote any great building whatever,) _sitteth not down first and counteth the cos...
SAYING, THIS MAN BEGAN TO BUILD, AND WAS NOT ABLE TO FINISH....
Two parables for emphasis:...
EATING IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE (vs.1-14) This chapter shows the heart of God in seeking man, yet also man in thorough contrast and opposition to God. One of the chief Pharisees invited the Lord Jesu...
25-35 Though the disciples of Christ are not all crucified, yet they all bear their cross, and must bear it in the way of duty. Jesus bids them count upon it, and then consider of it. Our Saviour exp...
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Luke 14:30 saying G3004 (G5723) This G3754 G3778 man G444 began G756 (G5662) build G3618 ...
THE CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP (14:25-35). Luke closes this section off as he opened it by showing Jesus as challenging His disciples and His would be disciples to consider what was involved in what they we...
“Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.” For if he fails people will say scathingly, “This man began to build, and was not able to finish.” In the same way therefore those who ar...
THE discourse was delivered, on the way to Jerusalem, probably very shortly after the meal in the Pharisee's house (Luke 14:1-24). The _place_ was therefore Perea, and the _time_ one of the three days...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
Luke 14:29-30. LEST HAPLY, etc. The probable consequence of any other way of proceeding is described: first, failure to finish; second, the mockery of others at the failure. The leading thought here e...
THIS MAN (ουτος ο ανθρωπος). This fellow, contemptuous or sarcastic use of ουτος....
Luke 14:25. _And there went great multitudes with him:_ During at least a part of his earthly ministry, Christ was very popular. The people crowded to his feet, and they were willing to make him a ki...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals on the Sabbath. Parable of the ambitious guest. Parable of the great supper. Parable of the tower, of the king going to war, and of the savorless salt. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharis...
Luke 14:3. _Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day._ When customs are good, let us keep them; but when they are burthensome and inconsistent, the Saviour refused submission to the traditions of men....
HE SITS DOWN FIRST AND FIGURES OUT WHAT IT WILL COST. This is just good sense. Before anyone follows Christ, they must learn what it will cost them, because everything that stands between them and Chr...
_For which of you, intending to build a tower_ THE CHRISTIAN BUILDER Our Lord on purpose mentioned a tower rather than any other building, perhaps to signify that the top of our spiritual building m...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:28 Two illustrations warn against making a hasty decision to follow Jesus (compare Luke 8:15; Luke 21:19).
CHAPTER 14 VER. 1. _And it came to pass that He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_. "To do them service," says Titus, "Christ makes Himself their friend, and, as it were, one of their...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:25. THERE WENT WITH HIM.—_I.e._, journeyed with Him; many, if not most, of them being on their way to one of the feasts in Jerusalem. The multitudes were attracted by Christ’s...
EXPOSITION LUKE 14:1 _The Pharisee_'_s feast on a sabbath day. The healing of the sick with dropsy._ LUKE 14:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES TO EAT B...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to Luke, chapter 14. The fourteenth chapter involves an invitation for Jesus to come to a supper on the Sabbath day and of the things that trans...
1 Corinthians 3:11; 2 John 1:8; 2 Peter 2:19; Acts 1:18; Acts 1:19;...
This man [ο υ τ ο ς ο α ν θ ρ ω π ο ς]. With sarcastic emphasis. Was not able [ο υ κ ι σ χ υ σ ε ν]. From ijscuv, strength. See on power, 2 Peter 2:11. To be strong in body or in resources, and so to...