Luke 17:7

Luke 17:7. But who is there of you. The connection is : beware of thinking that you have any merit in the great results accomplished by faith. The thought of their enduring in faith so long as the day of their labor lasted, is also included. By such views of their unprofitableness and of the need of patient endurance their faith would be increased.

A servant. A bond-servant, entirely dependent on his master's will.

Ploughing or keeping sheep. There may be an allusion to the two kinds of apostolic duty : breaking up the fallow ground and feeding the Lord's people; but the main thought is that the servant is doing what his master has ordered him to do.

Come straightway (the E. V. misplaces this word, rendering it ‘by and by'): this is contrasted with ‘afterward' (Luke 17:8).