Sit not down
(μη κατακλιθηις). First aorist (ingressive) passive subjunctive of κατακλινω, to recline. Old verb, but peculiar to Luke in the N.T. (Luke 7:36; Luke 9:14; Luke 14:8; Luke 24:30).Be bidden
(η κεκλημενος). Periphrastic perfect passive subjunctive of καλεω after μη ποτε.
ART BIDDEN - Are invited. TO A WEDDING - A wedding was commonly attended with a feast or banquet. THE HIGHEST ROOM - The seat at the table nearest the head. A MORE HONOURABLE MAN - A more aged man,...
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)...
Jesus spoke a parable to the invited guests, for he noticed how they chose the first places at the table. "When you are bidden by someone to a marriage feast," he said. "do not take your place at tabl...
OF. by. Greek _hupo._ App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luke 14:28; Luke 14:33. TO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. A WEDDING. wedding feast. SIT. recline. NOT. Greek _me._ App-105. Not the same word...
_to a wedding_ The term is used generally for any great feast; but perhaps our Lord here adopted it to make His lesson less immediately personal. _a more honourable man than thou_ Philippians 2:3, ...
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...
ΕἸΣ ΓΆΜΟΥΣ. The term is used generally for any great feast; but perhaps our Lord here adopted it to make His lesson less immediately personal. ἘΝΤΙΜΌΤΕΡΌΣ ΣΟΥ. Philippians 2:3, “in lowliness of mind...
HUMILITY; A LESSON FOR THE GUESTS...
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 7. And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying to them, 8. When you are bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the hig...
_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...
ΚΛΗΘΉΣ _aor. conj. pass._, _см._ Luke 14:7. _Conj._ с ΌΤΑΝ (G3752) в indef. _temp. прид._ ΚΑΤΑΚΛΙΘΉΣ _aor. conj. pass. (dep.) от_ ΚΑΤΑΚΛΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G2625) садиться, возлежать (особенно во время еды). _Con...
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...
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; WHEN THOU ART BIDDEN OF ANY MAN TO A WEDDING - `and,' as is i...
25 Compare Mat_25:10-12. 27 Compare 2Ti_2:19. 29 Eastern etiquette is most stringent as to the placing of guests at a banquet. The most honorable must have the first place and the least the last. So...
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)....
ON PLACES OF HONOUR AT FEASTS (peculiar to Lk, but a similar discourse occurs in the 'Western' text of St. Matthew, Luke 20:28, q.v.). It is probable that the dropsical man was healed before the dinne...
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...
SIT NOT DOWN. — Literally, _recline not._ LEST A MORE HONOURABLE MAN THAN THOU... — The words imply that the common practice was for the guests to seat themselves; then, as in the parable of the wedd...
γάμους, a marriage feast, here representing all great social functions at which ambition for distinction is called into play. ἐντιμότερός σου : this does not necessarily denote one of known superior s...
_Take the lowest seat_. Here begins the table talk of Jesus, consisting of three discourses. The first addressed to the guests in general is really a _parable_ teaching the lesson of humility pointed...
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...
HUMILITY AND PRIDE Luke 14:7-11. “ _But He spoke a parable to those who had been invited_ [_i.e._, _called to the feast in the house of this Pharisaical ruler_], _warning them how they were accustomed...
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...
2 _d. Luke 14:7-11_. Here is the point at which the guests seat themselves at table. The recommendation contained in this passage is not, as has often been thought, a counsel of worldly prudence. Holt...
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...
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest ro...
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...
WHEN THOU ART BIDDEN OF ANY MAN TO A WEDDING,.... To a wedding dinner, or to any other; such an one as the present entertainment was, which was not a marriage feast, for they might not marry on the sa...
When thou art bidden of any _man_ to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; Ver. 8. _When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding_] When s...
_And he put forth a parable_ The ensuing discourse is so termed, because several parts of it are not to be understood literally. _To those which were bidden_ From this circumstance, that the guests we...
HIGHEST ROOM; most honorable place at the table, where the principal personages reclined....
A parable teaching humility:...
WHEN THOU ART BIDDEN OF ANY MAN TO A WEDDING, SIT NOT DOWN IN THE HIGHEST ROOM, LEST A MORE HONORABLE MAN THAN THOU BE BIDDEN OF HIM,...
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...
Ver. 8-11. Two or three moral instructions we have in this parable. 1. That the law of Christ justifieth none in any rudeness and incivility. 2. That the disciples of Christ ought to have a regard t...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II He says accordingly somewhere, "When thou art called to a wedding, recline not on the highest couch; but when thou art called, fall into the lowest place;...
Luke 14:8 When G3752 invited G2564 (G5686) by G5259 anyone G5100 to G1519 feast G1062 not G3361 down...
“When you are invited by any man to a marriage feast, do not sit down in the chief seat, lest it chance that a more honourable man than you be invited by him,” Jesus instances a marriage feast. This i...
THE WARNING AGAINST BEING ONE OF THOSE WHO SEEKS OUT THE CHIEF SEATS (14:7-11). This passage is parallel in the chiasmus with those who are to seek, not food and clothing, but the Kingly Rule of God,...
Luke 14:8. TO A MARRIAGE FEAST. The greatest festivity, where questions of place were (and are still) considered of most importance. The figure suggests a reference to the feast of the kingdom of God,...
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 14:7. _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....
SO BE TOLD THIS PARABLE. A parable uses common things to teach a spiritual lesson. DO NOT SIT DOWN IN THE BEST PLACE. Protocol gave special honor to certain places. Some of the guests were trying to g...
_He put forth a parable to those which were bidden_ CHRIST’S GREAT TEXT BOOK “When He marked how they … ” The book of daily life was Christ’s great text-book. What every man did, gave Him a subject;...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:7 WILL BE HUMBLED... WILL BE EXALTED (compare Luke 18:14). Sometimes this happens in this life, but it will take place most fully at the final judgment ...
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...
_When thou art bidden_... _sit not down in the highest room._ For when the master of the house takes your place from you to give it to a more honourable guest, those who sit next in order will not giv...
_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...
Proverbs 25:6; Proverbs 25:7...
Wedding. More properly, marriage - feast....
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...