Luke 14:21
The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
20Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’
22‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:12So David’s men turned around and went back, and they relayed to him all these words.
Psalms 38:7For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
Proverbs 9:3She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.
Isaiah 35:6Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
Zechariah 11:7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
Matthew Henry on Luke 14:16-25
The Generous Invitations; The Neglected Feast. 15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see… Read the whole commentary →