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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 14:30

“Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.” For if he fails people will say scathingly, “This man began to build, and was not able to finish.” In the same way therefore those who are considering leaving all and following Jesus should consider whether they are really willing to follow Him all the way, lest when they fail and return to their towns they are jeered at for their failure. Here the builder has a free choice and could choose to build or not as he desired (as with the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 14:25-35

Luke 14:25-Habakkuk : . 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 stringent and sifting test. Few after all will reach the Messianic banquet, and only then after much tribulation. The saying of Luke 14:26 f. is in a harder form than Matthew 10:37 f., and it is better to think that Mt. has softened it than for us to do so here. Such... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 14:28-33

Our Lord had in the parable of the supper showed what those things are which keep men from embracing the call of the gospel, to wit, their hearts’ too much adherence to and embracing of sensible and sensual things. For the meeting of which temptation he had told them, Luke 14:25-27, that if they loved any thing in the world more than him, they could have no portion in him, they could not be his disciples, for (as Matthew saith) they are not worthy of him; nay, more than this, they must take up... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 14:25-35

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 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 teaching and works, and He wished to teach His followers the wide difference between an outward and a real adhesion to Him. He spoke these stern words to sift the multitude. The purpose of self-sacrifice by which He was inspired lent force to His utterances. “The nearer the approach of His own... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 14:28-33

DISCOURSE: 1541THE FOOLISH BUILDER AND THE INCONSIDERATE KINGLuke 14:28-33. Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 14:1-35

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 transpired at that supper, and the subsequent exchange between Jesus and the people as Jesus talked to them concerning etiquette and concerning the demands of the kingdom.So it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him (... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 14:1-35

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. Yet he condescended to assign reasons, for we should use great forbearance with misguided men On another occasion he said, My Father works, in the shining of the sun, and I work. Ye also circumcise a son on the sabbath; and if it be lawful for you to wound, why not for me to heal? You help a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 14:28-30

Luke 14:28-30For which of you, intending to build a towerThe Christian builderOur Lord on purpose mentioned a tower rather than any other building, perhaps to signify that the top of our spiritual building must reach to heaven, or otherwise it will be vain to build.A Christian, then, is a man that builds a tower, a noble building, not a cottage, and therefore should count the cost. I. WHAT SORT OF A TOWER THE CHRISTIAN BUILDS. 1. A tower is no small building, but a noble structure; and so is... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Luke 14:30

Matthew 7:27, Matthew 27:3-Ruth :, Acts 1:18, Acts 1:19, 1 Corinthians 3:11-2 Chronicles :, Hebrews 6:4-Ruth :, Hebrews 6:11, Hebrews 10:38, 2 Peter 2:19-Song of Solomon :, 2 John 1:8 Reciprocal: Nehemiah 6:3 - I am doing Matthew 27:40 - that destroyest read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 14:1-35

THE PERAEAN MINISTRY, BETWEEN THE FEAST OF DEDICATION AND THE RETIREMENT TO EPHRAIM. Luke 13:22 to Luke 17:10. See Harmony, p. 101. Jesus went to the Feast of Dedication, John 10:22-40. After which, according to John 10:40, he went to beyond Jordan, (Peraea,) where John at first baptized, and there abode. Many, as John assures us, who had the original testimony of the Baptist, were convinced of its fulfilment in him, and became believers on him. Of this PERAEN MINISTRY Luke here gives an... read more