Luke 14:20
“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’
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In The King James Version
And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:5+ 24:5. Deut 24:5 (#5.379): T. A groom in his first year of marriage shall not be required to take part in military service or other external obligations / R. Not to demand any involvement, communal or military from one who has taken a wife, built a new home, or planted a vineyard When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. + 24:5. Deut 24:5 (#7.479): T. For a newly married husband to rejoice with his wife one year / R. He who has taken a wife, built a new home, or planted a vineyard is given a year to rejoice with his possessions T. Note: To “rejoice with his wife” is also translated as “to make his wife happy”. The new husband is to be free from external social obligations / Consider: The idea of a woman being made happy is a foreign idea to all the Middle Eastern nations of the day, and this idea is laughable to the Greeks. This is God’s command, not human rational of the day He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Luke 18:29He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,
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 →