Lucas 14:25-32 RVA

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 14:28-29

“For which of you, desiring to build a tower (farm mansion), does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have that with which to complete it? Lest haply, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,” But Jesus does not want them to take the decision lightly, and therefore illustrates this in terms of a builder of a tower or ‘large farm house’ (a farmhouse on the grand scale - many of his hearers would be farmers). Does not such a... read more

Peter Pett

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 14:31-32

“Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a deputation, and asks for conditions of peace.” Jesus then gives a second example. We note here that in chapters 13-14 He continually reveals His delight in twofold illustrations. Two examples of sudden death (Luke 13:1-5), two visits to seek... 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 14:25-27

We met with much the same Matthew 10:37,Matthew 10:38. The sum of the words is, That no man can be a true disciple of Christ, that giveth any friend, or any thing, a preference to Christ in the affections of his heart. Christ must be loved above all. It appeareth that the words must not be interpreted rigidly, for then they would oblige us to a thing, 1. Impossible in nature: for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, Ephesians 5:29. Yet life is one of the things... 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

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Luke 14:26

hate All terms which define the emotions or affections are comparative. Natural affection is to be, as compared with the believer's devotedness to Christ, as if it were hate. See Matthew 12:47-50 where Christ illustrates this principle in His own person. But in the Lord the natural affections are sanctified and lifted to the level of the divine love (cf) ; John 19:26; John 19:27; Ephesians 5:25-28. 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