ἐμπαίζειν, to mock; an unfinished tower is specially ridiculous: height is essential. οὗτος, etc., this man, contemptuously; “this” stands for a proper name. “Vulgo ponunt N. N.,” Bengel. Jesus here appeals with characteristic tact to one of the most sensitive feelings of human nature shrinking from ridicule. Who would care to be spoken of all his days as the man who commenced a tower and could not finish it?
HAPLY - Perhaps. TO MOCK HIM - To ridicule him. To laugh at him....
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...
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...
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
THE FOUNDATION. its foundation. ABLE. strong enough. FINISH IT FINISH IT OFF. Greek. _ekteleo._ Only here and Luke 14:30. BEHOLD. Greek. _theoreo._ App-133. BEGIN. As they see him nearing the end...
_all that behold it begin to mock him_ Very possibly this might have actually happened in some well-known instance, since the Herodian family had a passion for great buildings and probably found many...
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...
ΠΆΝΤΕΣ ΟἹ ΘΕΩΡΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ ἌΡΞΩΝΤΑΙ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι ἘΜΠΑΊΖΕΙΝ. Very possibly this might have actually happened in some well-known instance, since the Herodian family had a passion for great buildings and probably...
LESSONS OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS, AND OF COUNTING THE COST; THE TOWER-BUILDER; THE WARRING KING; THE SAVOURLESS SALT...
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 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...
ΘΈΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087) помещать, класть. _Gen. abs._ ΘΕΜΈΛΙΟΣ (G2310) основание, ΙΣΧΎΟΝΤΟΣ _praes. act. part._ (причины), _см._ Luke 14:6. _Gen. abs._ ΈΚΤΕΛΈΣΑΙ _aor. act...
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...
_FOR WHICH OF YOU, INTENDING TO BUILD A TOWER, SITTETH NOT DOWN FIRST, AND COUNTETH THE COST, WHETHER HE HAVE SUFFICIENT TO FINISH IT?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 DROPSICAL MAN. THE GREAT SUPPER. DIVERS SAYINGS AND PARABLES 1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk)....
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...
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...
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...
_Lest after, &c. Here he wishes to shew us, that we are not to embrace any state of life, particularly that of an ecclesiastic, without previous and serious consideration, whether we shall be able to...
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...
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...
LEST HAPLY AFTER HE HATH LAID THE FOUNDATION,.... Has begun to build, has taken up a profession, has submitted to ordinances, and got into a church state: AND IS NOT ABLE TO FINISH IT; a foundation m...
Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish _it_, all that behold _it_ begin to mock him, Ver. 29. _Begin to mock him, saying, &c._] Of all things, men love not to be jee...
_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...
LEST HAPLY, AFTER HE HATH LAID THE FOUNDATION, AND IS NOT ABLE TO FINISH IT, ALL THAT BEHOLD IT BEGIN TO MOCK HIM,...
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 14:29 lest G3363 G3379 he G846 laid G5087 (G5631) foundation G2310 and G2532 is G2480 not...
“For which of you, desiring to build a tower (farm mansion), does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have that with which to complete it? Lest haply, when he has laid a foundation, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
LEST HAPLY (ινα μηποτε). Double final particles (positive and negative with addition of ποτε). Used here with aorist middle subjunctive in αρξωντα (begin).WHEN HE HATH LAID... AND WAS NOT ABLE (θ...
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...
Luke 14:29...
To finish [ε κ τ ε λ ε σ α ι]. Lit., "to finish out" [ε κ]. Behold [θ ε ω ρ ο υ ν τ ε ς]. Attentively watching the progress of the building. See on ch. Luke 10:18. Begin to mock. As his resources co...