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HAPLY - Perhaps.
TO MOCK HIM - To ridicule him. To laugh at him....
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LESSONS OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS, AND OF COUNTING THE COST; THE
TOWER-BUILDER; THE WARRING KING; THE SAVOURLESS SALT...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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(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...
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_Parables illustrating the need of counting the cost_, peculiar to
Lk., but intrinsically probable as sayings of Jesus, and thoroughly
germane to the foregoing discourse. The connection is: It is a se...
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_Concio ad populum_. Jesus now appears on the way, and followed by
“many multitudes” (ὄχλοι πολλοί, Luke 14:25) to whom
He speaks. Thus sayings which in Mt. and Mk. form part of
disciple-instruction ...
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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 a...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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LEST HAPLY, AFTER HE HATH LAID THE FOUNDATION, AND IS NOT ABLE TO
FINISH IT, ALL THAT BEHOLD IT BEGIN TO MOCK HIM,...
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Two parables for emphasis:...
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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...
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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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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 14:28...
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Luke 14:29 lest G3363 G3379 he G846 laid G5087 (G5631) foundation
G2310 and G2532 is G2480 not...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:28 Two illustrations warn against making a
hasty decision to follow Jesus (compare Luke 8:15; Luke 21:19).
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Luke 14:29...
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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...