Luke 5:29

δοχὴν (from δέχομαι here and in Luke 14:13), a reception, a feast, in Sept [51] for מִשְׁתֶּה (Genesis 26:30; Esther 1:3). That Mt. made a feast is directly stated only by Lk., perhaps as an inference from the phrases in Mk. which imply it: κατακεῖσθαι, συνανέκειντο (Luke 5:15), ἐσθίει καὶ πίνει (Luke 5:16). That it was a great feast is inferred from πολλοὶ in reference to the number present. The expressions of the evangelists force us to conceive of the gathering as exceeding the dimensions of a private entertainment a congregation rather, in the court, to eat and to hear the gospel of the kingdom. Possibly none of the evangelists realised the full significance of the meeting, though Lk. by the expression ὄχλος πολὺς shows that he conceived of it as very large. ἄλλων stands for ἁμαρτωλῶν, which Lk. does not care to use when speaking for himself of the class, preferring the vague word “others”. They were probably a very nondescript class, the “submerged tenth” of Capernaum.

[51] Septuagint.