Luke 14:18

Luke 14:18. And they all. The exceptions among the rulers and Pharisees were so few, that this feature of the parable might well be thus stated.

With one consent, or ‘accord.' All in the same spirit, although the excuses are different as well as the manner in which they were made. All were prompted by worldliness, though in different forms.

To make excuse. They acknowledged the obligation to some extent.

I have bought a field, etc. This represents the man of business, occupied with his possessions, yet not uncourteous, but pleading necessity: I must needs go out and see it. Not that he had bought it without seeing it, but that it needed looking after, or it may refer to a chance for a bargain, which depended on his going out to see the land just then.