Luke 14:21

So the servant returned to his master and reported what everyone had said. The owner of the house was angry when he heard the reasons they gave for not coming. He said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city and find poor and crippled and blind and lame people, and bring them here into my house!’

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

In Context

20Another person said, ‘I have just been married. So I cannot come.’

22After the servant went and did that, he came back and said, ‘Sir, I have done what you (sg) told me to do, but there is still room for more people.’

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:12Then David’s men returned and told him what Nabal had said.

Psalms 38:7My body is burning with fever, and I am very ill.

Proverbs 1:20Wisdom [PRS] shouts to people in the streets, and calls out to people in the ◄plazas/town squares►.

Proverbs 9:3It is as though then she sent out her servant women to call out from the highest place in the town,

Isaiah 35:6Lame people will leap like deer, and those who have been unable to speak will sing joyfully. Water will gush out from springs in the desert; streams will flow in the desert.

Zechariah 11:7So I became the shepherd of a flock of sheep that were about to be slaughtered for their meat to be sold to the dealers. I took good care of the sheep, even the ones that were the weakest sheep. Then I took two shepherds’ ◄staffs/walking sticks►. I named the one staff ‘Kindness’ and the other staff ‘Union’. And I took good care of the sheep.

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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