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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 14:11

This verse expresses the principle involved (cf. Luke 13:30; Luke 18:14; Matthew 23:12). Self-exaltation leads to humiliation whereas humility results in exaltation (cf. Proverbs 25:6-7). The principle operates in the present and in the future. It operates in social situations and in kingdom situations.This parable then was a lesson for the Pharisees especially, but also for Jesus’ disciples and everyone else present, on the importance of humility. Participants in the kingdom and honored guests... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 14:12-14

The lesson about inviting guests 14:12-14Jesus addressed the former parable to His fellow guests, but He directed this teaching particularly to His host. This lesson, like the former parable, could have applied only to social relationships. However, Jesus’ teaching was never simply ethical. It always had a spiritual dimension (cf. Luke 6:32-36). Jesus was teaching on both levels. If the Pharisees did not perceive or rejected the lesson about Jesus’ ministry, they could at least profit from the... read more

John Dummelow

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

The Dropsical Man. The Great Supper. Divers Sayings and Parables1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk).1. To eat bread] So far from being abstemious on the sabbath, the Jews carried the pleasures of the table to excess. ’The Hebrews honour the sabbath chiefly by inviting each other to drinking and intoxication’ (Plutarch). ’Rabbah Abba bought flesh of thirteen butchers that he might be sure to taste the best, and paid them at the very gate, that he... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:10

(10) Sit down in the lowest room.—Better, as before, recline for the verb, and place, or couch, for the noun.Friend.—The Greek word is not the same as in Matthew 20:13 (where see Note), Matthew 22:12; Matthew 26:50, but is the same as in John 11:11; John 15:14. The difference is suggestive. The first word addressed to the humble and lowly guest speaks of confidence and affection. He is welcomed as, in the highest sense, the “friend” of the giver of the feast.Worship . . .—Better, honour, or... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:11

(11) Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased.—The reproduction of the teaching in words which are almost an echo of these, in 1 Peter 5:5, is interesting as showing the impression which it had made on the minds of the disciples. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:12

(12) A dinner or a supper.—The two words were used respectively for the morning and the evening meal—the former, like the Continental déjeûner, being taken commonly a little before noon, the latter, about sunset.Thy friends, nor thy brethren.—The words were clearly chosen as including the classes of guests who were then present. Our Lord saw in that Sabbath feast nothing but an ostentatious hospitality, calculating on a return in kind. It might not be wrong in itself, but it could take no... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:13

(13) 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 social life, and with the lessons of experience. Relief given privately, thoughtfully, discriminatively, may be better both for the giver, as less ostentatious, and for the receivers, as tending to the formation of a higher character, than the open feast of the Eastern form of benevolence. The... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:14

(14) At the resurrection of the just.—The passage has the interest of being the first occurrence of the word “resurrection” in our Lord’s teaching. On this point our Lord, while rebuking the pride and hypocrisy of the Pharisees, accepted the fundamental doctrine of their system, and so furnished a precedent for St. Paul’s conduct in Acts 23:6. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Luke 14:1-35

The Men Without a Sabbath Luke 14:3-6 The Lord delivered His primary challenge to the Jews through the Sabbath Day. It was, as it were, His gauge of battle, His test case. For His own personal significance turned on His relation to this Sabbath Day question. Not that in this He challenged the validity of the older Covenant. On the contrary, He always claimed the authority of the older Covenant on His own side. He appealed for His own justification to the principles established in the Law of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Luke 14:7-11

7Chapter 22THE ETHICS OF THE GOSPEL.WHATEVER of truth there may be in the charge of "other-worldliness," as brought against the modern exponents of Christianity, such a charge could not even be whispered against its Divine Founder. It is just possible that the Church had been gazing too steadfastly up into heaven, and that she had not been studying the science of the "Humanities" as zealously as she ought, and as she has done since; but Jesus did not allow even heavenly things to obliterate or... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 14:11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 14:12-14

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:10

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:11

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:12

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 14:14

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Luke 14:1-35

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Luke 14:7-11

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