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Luke 14:7
And He put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when He marked how they chose out the chief rooms, saying unto them,
And He put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when He marked how they chose out the chief rooms, saying unto them,
Verse Luke 14:7. _THEY CHOSE OUT THE CHIEF ROOMS_] When custom and law have regulated and settled places in public assemblies, a man who is obliged to attend may take the place which belongs to him,...
A PARABLE - The word parable, here, means rather a “precept, an injunction.” He gave a “rule or precept” about the proper manner of attending a feast, or about the humility which ought to be manifeste...
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. ...
A SABBATH WITH A PHARISEE. A companion picture to Luke 13:10. When in Luke 6:6 Lk. relates the cure of the man with a withered hand (Mark 3:1; Matthew 12:9) he
Jesus spoke a parable to the invited guests, for he noticed how they chose the first places at the table. "When you are bidden by someone to a marriage feast," he said. "do not take your place at tabl...
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
TO. Greek. _pros._ App-104. Not the same word as in Luke 14:8. BIDDEN. invited or called. Greek. _kaleo_ CHOSE OUT. were picking out. Going on before His eyes. CHIEF ROOMS. first couches. Greek _pro...
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...
7-11. Humility; a Lesson for the Guests. 7. _he put forth a parable_ See on Luke 4:23. _to those which were bidden_ to the invited guests, as distinguished from the onlookers. _they chose out_ Rathe...
HUMILITY; A LESSON FOR THE GUESTS...
ἜΛΕΓΕΝ … ΠΑΡΑΒΟΛΉΝ. See on Luke 4:23. ΠΡῸΣ ΤΟῪΣ ΚΕΚΛΗΜΈΝΟΥΣ. To the invited guests, as distinguished from the onlookers. ἘΠΈΧΩΝ. Sc. νοῦν, turning his attention to the fact (_animadvertens, attenden...
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...
Ver 7. And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying to them, 8. When you are bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the hig...
_THE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST -- LUKE 14:7-14:_ Jesus observed how those who were bidden were interested in the chief seats. He put forth the parable of the wedding feast to again teach them the p...
ΈΛΕΓΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. Inch, _impf._, "Он начал рассказывать..." ΚΕΚΛΗΜΈΝΟΥΣ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать, приглашать. Part, в роли _subst._ ΕΠΈΧΩΝ _praes. a...
CHIEF ROOMS;— _Chief places:_— πρωτοκλισιας, _chief seats,_ and so where the word _room_ occurs: from this circumstance, and from what is said Luke 14:12 it appears that this was a great entertainment...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Gracious (Luke 14:7-14) 7 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8When you are invited by any...
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, AND HE PUT FORTH A PARABLE TO THOSE WHICH WERE BIDDEN, WHEN HE MARKED HOW...
25 Compare Mat_25:10-12. 27 Compare 2Ti_2:19. 29 Eastern etiquette is most stringent as to the placing of guests at a banquet. The most honorable must have the first place and the least the last. So...
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)....
A PARABLE] An elastic word. Here it means a piece of advice, inculcating humility. CHOSE.. THE CHIEF ROOMS] RV 'seats,' i.e. places on the couches: see on Mark 12:39. A good illustration of the pride...
ON PLACES OF HONOUR AT FEASTS (peculiar to Lk, but a similar discourse occurs in the 'Western' text of St. Matthew, Luke 20:28, q.v.). It is probable that the dropsical man was healed before the dinne...
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...
AND HE PUT FORTH A PARABLE. — The passage has the interest of being, in conjunction with Luke 11:43, the germ of the great invective of Matthew 23:6, and the verses that follow. (See Notes there.) CHI...
CHAPTER 22 THE ETHICS OF THE GOSPEL. WHATEVER of truth there may be in the charge of "other-worldliness," as brought against the modern exponents of Christianity, such a charge could not even be whi...
_Take the lowest seat_. Here begins the table talk of Jesus, consisting of three discourses. The first addressed to the guests in general is really a _parable_ teaching the lesson of humility pointed...
Luke 14:1-24 contain a digest of sayings of Jesus at the table of a Pharisee, this being the third instance in this Gospel of such friendly intercourse between Him and members of the Pharisaic party....
ἐπέχων, observing. Euthy. renders: μεμφόμενος, blaming, in itself a legitimate meaning but not compatible with πῶς. The practice observed choosing the chief places was characteristic of Pharisees (Mat...
LESSONS FOR GUESTS AND HOSTS Luke 14:7-14 The word _rooms_ should be _seats,_ r.v. We must, of course, guard against a false humility, which chooses a low seat in the hope of being invited forward. L...
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...
(2) And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, (2) The reward of pride is dishonour, and the reward of true modesty is...
A parable. What parable? In the text there is no parable, but only instruction. Maldonatus thinks that our Saviour spoke a parable on this occasion, which St. Luke has omitted, giving us only the mora...
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...
HUMILITY AND PRIDE Luke 14:7-11. “ _But He spoke a parable to those who had been invited_ [_i.e._, _called to the feast in the house of this Pharisaical ruler_], _warning them how they were accustomed...
3. _Jesus at a Feast: Luke 14:1-24_. The following piece allows us to follow Jesus in His domestic life and familiar conversations. It is connected with the preceding by the fact that it is with a Pha...
2 _d. Luke 14:7-11_. Here is the point at which the guests seat themselves at table. The recommendation contained in this passage is not, as has often been thought, a counsel of worldly prudence. Holt...
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest ro...
7._And he spoke a parable to those who were invited. _We know to what an extent ambition prevailed among the Pharisees and all the scribes. While they desired to exercise a haughty dominion over all o...
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...
AND HE PUT FORTH A PARABLE TO THOSE WHICH WERE BIDDEN,.... To the dinner at the Pharisee's house, particularly the lawyers, or Scribes and Pharisees: WHEN HE MARKED HOW THEY CHOSE OUT THE CHIEF ROOMS...
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, Ver. 7. _When he marked_] Ministers, though they may not be time servers, y...
_And he put forth a parable_ The ensuing discourse is so termed, because several parts of it are not to be understood literally. _To those which were bidden_ From this circumstance, that the guests we...
HE PUT FORTH A PARABLE; showing the importance of humility....
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...
7-14 Even in the common actions of life, Christ marks what we do, not only in our religious assemblies, but at our tables. We see in many cases, that a man's pride will bring him low, and before honou...
A _parable_ here hath somewhat a different signification from what it more ordinarily hath in the evangelists: it usually signifies a similitude; here it signifies either a wise saying, or a dark sayi...
Luke 14:7 So G1161 told G3004 (G5707) parable G3850 to G4314 invited G2564 (G5772) noted G1907 ...
THE WARNING AGAINST BEING ONE OF THOSE WHO SEEKS OUT THE CHIEF SEATS (14:7-11). This passage is parallel in the chiasmus with those who are to seek, not food and clothing, but the Kingly Rule of God,...
‘And he spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose out the chief seats, saying to them,' Jesus noted how the Scribes and Pharisees who had come for the meal at the leadin...
Luke 14:7. A PARABLE, in the widest sense, since the language is to be taken literally, though made the basis of a general moral lesson (Luke 14:11). THEM THAT WERE HIDDEN. The invited guests, evide...
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...
This section, peculiar to Luke, has been aptly styled ‘the Son of man eating and drinking.' All the incidents occurred at a feast Luke 14:1; Luke 14:7). The parable of the Great Supper Luke 14:16-24)...
A PARABLE FOR THOSE WHICH WERE BIDDEN (προς τους κεκλημενους παραβολην). Perfect passive participle of καλεω, to call, to invite. This parable is for the guests who were there and who had been watc...
Luke 14:7. _And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms;_ This parable was by far the best part of the entertainment of the day: Luke 14:...
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....
SO BE TOLD THIS PARABLE. A parable uses common things to teach a spiritual lesson. DO NOT SIT DOWN IN THE BEST PLACE. Protocol gave special honor to certain places. Some of the guests were trying to g...
_He put forth a parable to those which were bidden_ CHRIST’S GREAT TEXT BOOK “When He marked how they … ” The book of daily life was Christ’s great text-book. What every man did, gave Him a subject;...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:7 WILL BE HUMBLED... WILL BE EXALTED (compare Luke 18:14). Sometimes this happens in this life, but it will take place most fully at the final judgment ...
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...
_And He put forth a parable to those which were bidden, i.e._ He taught, under the similitude of a man seeking the highest place at a feast, that we must beware of every kind of ambition. For sin cont...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:7. PUT FORTH A PARABLE.—The miracle was wrought, evidently, before the feast began. From the emulation among the guests, and from the allusion in Luke 14:12 to friends and ric...
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...
3 John 1:9; Acts 8:18; Acts 8:19; Ezekiel 17:2; Judges 14:12;...
They chose. Imperfect : were choosing. Something going on before his eyes. The chief seats. Or couches. The Greek writers refer to the absurd contentions which sometimes arose for the chief seats at...
HUMILITY AND EXALTATION Luke 14:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The Lord Jesus had a right to teach humility. Christ Jesus was very God of very God, dwelling in light unapproachable, and yet He humbled Him...
He spake a parable — The ensuing discourse is so termed, because several parts are not to be understood literally. The general scope of it is, Not only at a marriage feast, but on every occasion, he t...
It was observed before, that our blessed Saviour dined publicly on the sabbath day with several Pharisees and lawyers: that which is here worthy of our notice is this; how holy and suitable our Lord's...