Luke 14:22

"Soon the servant reported the result, saying, "`Sir, what you ordered is done, and there is room still.'

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

In Context

21"So the servant came and brought these answers to his master, and they stirred his anger. "`Go out quickly,' he said, `into the streets of the city--the wide ones and the narrow. You will see poor men, and crippled, blind, lame: fetch them all in here.'

23"`Go out,' replied the master, `to the high roads and hedge-rows, and compel the people to come in, so that my house may be filled.

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Cross References

Acts 1:1My former narrative, Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus did and taught as a beginning, down to the day on which,

Colossians 2:9For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,

1 John 2:2and He is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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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