Chapter 14:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mark John
Luke 14
Verse 2. There was a certain man before him - It does not appear that he
was come thither with any insidious design. Probably he came,
hoping for a cure, or perhaps was one of the family.
Verse
3. And Jesus answering, spake - Answering the thoughts which he
saw rising in their hearts.
Verse
7. He spake a parable - The ensuing discourse is so termed,
because several parts are not to be understood literally. The
general scope of it is, Not only at a marriage feast, but on every
occasion, he that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that
abaseth himself shall be exalted.
Verse
11. Matt. xxiii, 12.
Verse
12. Call not thy friends - That is, I do not bid thee call thy friends
or thy neighbours. Our Lord leaves these offices of humanity and
courtesy as they were, and teaches a higher duty. But is it not
implied herein, that we should be sparing in entertaining those
that need it not, in order to assist those that do need, with all that
is saved from those needless entertainments? Lest a recompense
be made - This fear is as much unknown to the world, as even the
fear of riches.
Verse
14. One of them that sat at table hearing these things - And being
touched therewith, said, Happy is he that shall eat bread in the
kingdom of God - Alluding to what had just been spoken. It
means, he that shall have a part in the resurrection of the just.
Verse
16. Then said he - Continuing the allusion. A certain man made a
great supper - As if he had said, All men are not sensible of this
happiness. Many might have a part in it, and will not.
Verse
18. They all began to make excuse - One of them pleads only his
own will, I go: another, a pretended necessity, I must needs go:
the third, impossibility, I cannot come: all of them want the holy
hatred mentioned ver. 26. All of them perish by things in
themselves lawful. I must needs go - The most urgent worldly
affairs frequently fall out just at the time when God makes the
freest offers of salvation.
Verse
21. The servant came and showed his Lord these things - So
ministers ought to lay before the Lord in prayer the obedience or
disobedience of their hearers.
Verse
23. Compel them to come in - With all the violence of love, and
the force of God's word. Such compulsion, and such only, in
matters of religion, was used by Christ and his apostles.
Verse
24. For refers to Go out, ver. 23.
Verse
26. If any man come to me, and hate not his father -
Comparatively to Christ: yea, so as actually to renounce his field,
oxen, wife, all things, and act as if he hated them, when they stand
in competition with him. Matt. x, 37.
Verse
28. And which of you intending to build a tower - That is, and
whoever of you intends to follow me, let him first seriously weigh
these things.
Verse
31. Another king - Does this mean, the prince of this world?
Certainly he has greater numbers on his side. How numerous are
his children and servants!
Verse
33. So - Like this man, who, being afraid to face his enemy, sends
to make peace with him, every one who forsaketh not all that he
hath -
1. By withdrawing his affections from all the creatures;
2. By enjoying them only in and for God, only in such a measure
and manner as leads to him;
3. By hating them all, in the sense above mentioned, cannot be my
disciple - But will surely desist from building that tower, neither
can he persevere in fighting the good fight of faith.
Verse
34. Salt - Every Christian, but more eminently every minister.
Matt. v, 13; Mark ix, 50.
Chapter 14:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mark John
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