Luke 14:20

Yet another said, ‘I have married a wife, and so I cannot come.’

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

In Context

19Another said: ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’

21So that slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

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Cross References

Luke 18:29So He said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God,

1 Corinthians 7:33While he who is married cares about the things of the world: how he will please his wife.

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 →

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