Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Luke 14:19
Five yoke of oxen. — The number was one which came within the reach of any peasant farmer of moderate competence. (Comp. Elisha’s twelve yoke of oxen, 1 Kings 19:19.)
Five yoke of oxen. — The number was one which came within the reach of any peasant farmer of moderate competence. (Comp. Elisha’s twelve yoke of oxen, 1 Kings 19:19.)
I GO TO PROVE THEM - To try them, to see if he had made a good bargain. It is worthy of remark that this excuse was very trifling. He could as easily have tried them at any other time as then, and his...
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
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
When one of those who were sitting at table with Jesus heard this, he said, "Happy is the man who eats bread in the kingdom of God." Jesus said to him, "There was a man who made a great banquet, and w...
ANOTHER. App-124. GO. go forth. PROVE. try. HAVE. hold....
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...
_I go to prove them_ The second has not even the decency to plead any _necessity._He merely says -I am going to test my oxen," and implies -my will is sufficient reason....
ΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ ΔΟΚΙΜΆΣΑΙ ΑΥ̓ΤΆ. The second has not even the decency to plead any _necessity_. He merely says ‘I am going to test my oxen,’ and implies ‘my will is sufficient reason.’...
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...
THE REFUSED BANQUET; A LESSON TO A GUEST...
Ver 15. And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said to him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16. Then said he to him, A certain man made a great...
_THE PARABLE OF THE GREAT SUPPER -- LUKE 14:15-24:_ Jesus mentioned "the resurrection of the just." This prompted one who was present at the meal to say, "Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kin...
ΖΕΎΓΗ _acc. pl._ от ΖΕΎΓΟΣ (G2201) ярмо, ΉΓΌΡΑΣΑ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 14:18. ΔΟΚΙΜΆΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΔΟΚΙΜΆΖΩ (G1381) испытывать, подвергать проверке. _Inf._ цели....
THEN SAID HE UNTO HIM, &C.— "What you say is very true; my kingdom is full of blessings, though many despise and reject them; as may be represented in the followingparable: A certain man made a great...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Grateful (Luke 14:15-24) 15 When one of those who sat at table with him heard this, he said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God! 16But he said...
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. AND ANOTHER SAID, I HAVE BOUGHT FIVE YOKE OF OXEN, AND I GO TO PROVE THEM: I PRAY THEE HAVE ME...
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...
THE GREAT SUPPER (peculiar to Lk, although Matthew 22:1 presents many points of similarity: see on that passage). Here the 'certain man' is God, the many bidden are the rulers of the Jews, the servant...
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...
ἕτερος, another; his excuse is also highly respectable, though nothing more than a decent excuse; the preoccupation very real, though the apology lame. Five yoke of oxen a very important purchase in t...
ἐκάλεσεν : it was a great feast and many were asked, with a long invitation....
_The great feast_ (_cf._ Matthew 22:1-14), very naturally introduced by the pious reflection of a guest whose religious sentiment had been touched by the allusion to the resurrection-felicity of the j...
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....
THE SLIGHTED INVITATION Luke 14:15-24 In this parable the Master anticipated that the Jewish magistrates and leaders would repudiate His invitations, and that they would therefore be extended to the...
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...
THE MARRIAGE SUPPER Luke 14:15-24. “ _And a certain one of those sitting along with Him_, _hearing these things_, _said to Him_, _Happy is every one who eats bread in the kingdom of God_!” Jesus and H...
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...
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...
῎Αρτον φάγεσθαι (fut. of φάγω) merely signifies, to be admitted to the heavenly feast. There is no allusion in the expression to the excellence of the meats which shall form this repast (Luke 14:1). J...
4 _th. Luke 14:15-24_. The conversation which follows belongs to a later time in the feast. Jesus had been depicting the just seated at the Messiah's banquet, and receiving a superabundant equivalent...
Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one...
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 ANOTHER SAID, I HAVE BOUGHT FIVE YOKE OF OXEN,.... To plough the field with, AND I GO TO PROVE THEM: this also being at, or near evening, was an unsuitable time to go into the field with yokes of...
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. Ver. 19. _I have bought five yoke of oxen_] This answers those that plead their necessities, an...
_And they all with one consent_ Απο μιας is all that is in the original. It seems most natural to supply the ellipsis by the word γνωμης, _consent_, as our translators have done, an interpretation mai...
AND ANOTHER SAID, I HAVE BOUGHT FIVE YOKE OF OXEN, AND I GO TO PROVE THEM; I PRAY THEE HAVE ME. EXCUSED....
The excuses:...
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...
15-24 In this parable observe the free grace and mercy of God shining in the gospel of Christ, which will be food and a feast for the soul of a man that knows its own wants and miseries. All found so...
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Luke 14:19 And G2532 another G2087 said G2036 (G5627) bought G59 (G5656) five G4002 yoke G2201 oxen...
THE GREAT SUPPER WILL BE ATTENDED BY UNEXPECTED GUESTS BECAUSE THOSE FIRST INVITED HAVE MADE EXCUSES IN ORDER TO AVOID ATTENDING (14:12-24). In the previous parable Jesus had hinted at the danger of n...
“And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to prove them. I beg you have me excused.' ” The second of those invited excused himself, making as his excuse the fact that the...
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)...
Luke 14:16-24. THE PARABLE OF THE GREAT SUPPER. The force of the parable, as an answer to the guest is this: ‘What advantage can it be that you, with all your seeming enthusiasm, praise the happiness...
Luke 14:19. I HAVE BOUGHT FIVE YOKE OF OXEN. This one too is hindered by his possessions, but he does not plead necessity; he was GOING TO PROVE THEM, had started as it were, and preferred not to alte...
TO PROVE THEM (δοκιμασα αυτα). He could have tested them before buying. The oxen would not run away or be stolen....
Luke 14:16 The Great Supper. Note: I. The feast. This is the Gospel which God has provided for mankind, sinners. It is a feast (1) in respect of the excellence of the provision which it sets before...
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....
HOW HAPPY ARE THOSE. This is the happiness which God gives. It is a great honor to be "rescued from the power of darkness and brought safe into the Kingdom of Christ" (see Colossians 1:13)_. But many...
_A certain man made a great supper_ PARABLE OF THE GREAT SUPPER I. THE ELABORATE PREPARATION. Indicating the treasures of Divine wisdom, forethought, power, love, expended upon the work of redemptio...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:16 A GREAT BANQUET refers to the arrival of the kingdom in Jesus’ ministry. INVITED MANY. Two invitations would have been involved. The first one, reservations for the banquet, wo...
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 another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them_, &c. Another kind of avarice is here described, viz, the desire of possessing oxen, and animals for tillage, or food, or som...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:15. BLESSED IS HE.—The recompense at the resurrection of the just (Luke 14:14) suggested to this guest a great banquet in the kingdom of the Messiah at which the faithful Isra...
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...
Luke 14:19...
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...
EXCUSES Luke 14:16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Excuses, as they are usually given by those who do not desire to be Christians, are the most inexcusable things you ever heard. There are very few excuses, ther...