When thou makest a feast
(οταν δοχην ποιηις). Hοταν and the present subjunctive in an indefinite temporal clause. Δοχη means reception as in Luke 5:29, late word, only in these two passages in the N.T. Note absence of article with these adjectives in the Greek (poor people, maimed folks, lame people, blind people).
THE POOR - Those who are destitute of comfortable food. THE MAIMED - Those who are deprived of any member of their body, as an arm or a leg or who have not the use of them so that they can labor for...
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
Jesus said to the man who had invited him, "Whenever you give a dinner or a banquet, do not call your friends, or your brothers, or your kinsfolk or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back...
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
FEAST, OR RECEPTION. Occurs only here and in Luke 5:29. CALL. Same word as bid, Luke 14:7. THE POOR. Note the Figure of speech _Asyndeton_ (App-6), not emphasizing the particular classes, but hasteni...
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...
_call the poor_ Matthew 25:35. The duty is recognised in another form by Nehemiah. "Eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared," Nehemiah 8:10....
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...
WHOM TO INVITE; A LESSON TO THE HOST...
ΚΆΛΕΙ ΠΤΩΧΟΎΣ. Matthew 25:35. The duty is recognised in another form by Nehemiah. “Eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared,” Nehemiah 3:10....
VER 12. THEN SAID HE ALSO TO HIM THAT BADE HIM, WHEN YOU MAKE A DINNER OR A SUPPER, CALL NOT YOUR FRIENDS, NOR YOUR BRETHREN, NEITHER YOUR KINSMEN, NOR YOUR RICH NEIGHBORS; LEST THEY ALSO BID YOU AGAI...
_THE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST -- LUKE 14:7-14:_ Jesus observed how those who were bidden were interested in the chief seats. He put forth the parable of the wedding feast to again teach them the p...
ΔΟΧΉ (G1403) прием, пир. Это может быть указанием на победный пир Мессии после уничтожения Его врагов (LNT, 12655). ΠΟΙΉΣPRAES. _conj. act., см._ Luke 14:12. _Conj._ с ΌΤΑΝ (G3752) в indef. _temp. пр...
THE MAIMED,— 'Αναπηρους, the _disabled;_ the word takes in both the _lame_ and _the blind;_ and may also include those whom the infirmities of age have rendered helpless. See a fine parallel passage i...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Gracious (Luke 14:7-14) 7 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8When you are invited by any...
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: BUT WHEN THOU MAKEST A FEAST, CALL THE POOR, THE MAIMED, THE LAME, THE BLIND. Compare this with the classes God himsel...
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...
ON ENTERTAINING THE POOR (peculiar to Lk, whose Gospel is full of sympathy with the poor)....
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...
WHEN THOU MAKEST A FEAST. — Literally, as in Luke 5:29, _a reception._ In practice, it need hardly be said, the form of obedience to the precept must, of necessity, vary with the varying phases of soc...
δοχὴν, the same word used by Lk. in reference to the feast in Levi's house, which was a gathering of the sort here recommended by Jesus. μακάριος, here and always denoting rare virtue and felicity = t...
_A word to the host_, also parabolic in character in so far as it gives general counsel under a concrete particular form (Hahn), but not parabolic in the strict sense of teaching spiritual truth by na...
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....
LESSONS FOR GUESTS AND HOSTS Luke 14:7-14 The word _rooms_ should be _seats,_ r.v. We must, of course, guard against a false humility, which chooses a low seat in the hope of being invited forward. L...
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...
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...
HEAVENLY RECOMPENSE Luke 14:12-14. “ _But He also said to the one having invited Him_, _When you may make a dinner or a supper_, _do not call your rich friends_, _brothers_, _relatives_, _or neighbors...
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...
3 _d. Luke 14:12-14_. The company is seated. Jesus, then observing that the guests in general belonged to the upper classes of society, addresses to His host a lesson on charity, which He clothes, lik...
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and...
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...
BUT WHEN THOU MAKEST A FEAST,.... An entertainment for others, a dinner, or a supper: CALL THE POOR, THE MAIMED, THE LAME, AND THE BLIND; that is, the poor maimed, the poor lame, and the poor blind;...
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: Ver. 13. _Call the poor_] Christ prefers charity before courtesy....
_Then said he also to him that bade him_ In the time of dinner, Jesus directed his discourse to the person who had invited him, and showed him what sort of people he should bid to his feasts. _When th...
CALL THE POOR; do good to the needy who cannot reward you....
Advice to the host:...
BUT WHEN THOU MAKEST A FEAST, CALL THE POOR, THE MAIMED, THE LAME, THE BLIND,...
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...
7-14 Even in the common actions of life, Christ marks what we do, not only in our religious assemblies, but at our tables. We see in many cases, that a man's pride will bring him low, and before honou...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 14:12...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II If any determine to invite eider women to an entertainment of love, or a feast, as our Saviour calls it,[153]...
Luke 14:13 But G235 when G3752 give G4160 (G5725) feast G1403 invite G2564 (G5720) poor G4434 maimed...
‘But when you make a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they have no means with which to recompense you, for you will be recompensed in the resur...
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...
Luke 14:13. BID. NOT THE WORD used in Luke 14:12; the quiet invitation is meant. Sounding a trumpet before such a feast is forbidden in Matthew 6:1-2. THE POOR, etc. This is to be taken as including...
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 14:12 Christ's Counsel to His Host. Are ordinary dinner-parties wrong, then, in the eye of Christ, our Law-giver? Does He really condemn the custom of having our friends and social equals to din...
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....
WHEN YOU GIVE A LUNCH OR A DINNER. There is no honor in giving with the thought of being paid back. Helping those who could not possibly pay you back pleases God. _"When you give to the poor it is lik...
_Call the poor_ THE CHURCH’S DUTY TO THE POOR A recent advertisement on our city walls struck me as singularly suggestive; it contained the words, “God and the poor. ” Such a conjunction of words is...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:12 INVITE THE POOR, THE CRIPPLED, THE LAME, THE BLIND. Followers of Jesus should be generous toward those who are physically impaired or poor....
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 14:7. PUT FORTH A PARABLE.—The miracle was wrought, evidently, before the feast began. From the emulation among the guests, and from the allusion in Luke 14:12 to friends and ric...
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...
1 Timothy 3:2; 1 Timothy 5:10; 2 Chronicles 30:24; 2 Samuel 6:19;...
Feast [δ ο χ η ν]. Or reception. Used by Luke only. See on ch. Luke 5:29....
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...