Luke 14
Healing Again on the Sabbath
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And it came to pass when he entered into the house of one of the rules of
the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, and they were watching him
closely.
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And behold [a] certain man was suffering from dropsy before him.
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And answering Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees saying:
Is it allowed on the Sabbath to heal or not?
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But they were silent.
And having taken hold [of him] he healed him, and sent [him] away.
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And to them he said: Whose son
1 or beast falls into [a] well, and you do not straightway pull him up
on the day of the Sabbath?
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And they were not able to reply to these
[things].
On Seeking Seats of Honor
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But he was saying to those invited [a] parable, noticing
2 how they were choosing the first seats, saying to them:
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Whenever you be invited by someone to [a] wedding, do not lay back in
the first seat, lest one more honored than you be invited by him,
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and
coming the [one] having invited you and him will say to you: Give to this [one] the
place, and then you begin with disgrace to be occupying the last place.
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But whenever you be invited, having proceeded you lay back in the
last place, in order that when he come the [one] having invited you will say to
you: Friend, move up higher. Then it will be to you glory before all those
reclining with you.
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For everyone exalting himself will be humbled,
and the [one] humbling himself will be exalted.
12
But he was also saying to
the [one] having invited him: Whenever you do [a] lunch or [a] dinner, be not calling
your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich friends or your
brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you
in return and it become recompense to you.
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But whenever you would do
[a] banquet, be calling poor, crippled, lame, blind,
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and you will be
blessed, because they do not have to repay you. For it will be repaid to you
in the resurrection of the just.
The Parable of the Great Banquet
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But when one of those laying back
with him heard these [things] he said to him: Blessed is he who eats bread in the
kingdom of God.
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But he said to him: A certain man was doing [a] big
dinner, and invited many.
17
And he sent his slave in the hour of the
dinner to say to those invited: Be coming, for already is it prepared.
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And they were beginning from one all to be excusing [themselves]. The first said
to him, I bought [a] field, and I have necessity having gone to be seeing it; I
ask3
you, Be having me excused.
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And another said: I bought five yoke
of oxen, and I go to examine them; I ask3 you, Be having me excused.
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And another said: I married [a] wife, and because of this I am unable to come.
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And having arrived, the slave reported to his lord these [things]. Then
having been angered the master of the house said to his slave: Go swiftly
into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring here the poor and
crippled and blind and lame.
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And the slave said: Lord, what you
commanded is come to pass, and yet is there place.
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And the Lord said
to the slave: Go out into the roads and hedges and compel [them] to come in, that
my house be filled.
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For I say to you that none of those men invited
will taste my dinner.
Counting the Cost
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But [a] great crowd was going with him, and turning he said to them:
26
If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and
wife and children and brothers and sisters, yet even his own psyche-life4
, is not
able to be my disciple.
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Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me is not able to be my disciple.
28
For who among you wishing to build [a] tower does not first having sat
reckon the cost, if he has [enough] for completion?
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In order that when he having placed [the]
foundation and not being able to complete [it] all those beholding begin to be
mocking him,
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saying that: This man began to be building and was not
able to complete [it].
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Or what king when he proceeds to another king to
engage in battle does not having sat first resolve if he is able in ten
thousand to meet the [one] coming upon him with twenty thousand?
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But if not, while being afar off having sent [an] ambassador
he asks3 the [terms] for peace.
33
Likewise therefore everyone among you who does not take leave5
of all his
possessions is not able to be my disciple.
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Good therefore [is] the salt. But if the salt become
tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
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Neither for [the] ground6
nor for
the dung heap is it fit, they throw it out. The [one] having ears to be hearing,
let7
him be hearing.
1"son" p45,75BWK; "donkey" Hℵ vg;
"sheep" D
2or "aiming at"
3EROTAO (ερωταω)
"Ask", but more polite, not demanding/begging as is AITEO. Both AITEO and EROTAO occur in
John.16:26.
4from PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. Animals have PSYCHEs as well as humans. Contrast ZOE (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected.
5APOTASSO
(απoτασσω), 'take leave'. It is only used 6 places in the
NT:
Mark.6:46,
Luke.9:61,
Luke.14:33,
Acts.18:18,
Acts.18:21,
2Cor.2:13.
APOTASSO has the sense of 'appoint oneself-apart-from'—there's an element of Will in
separating oneself from something. It doesn't have any sense of rejecting a negative; in general it seems to be used to indicated willingly separating oneself from a positive. So you 'take leave' of loved ones, for example, which is actually how this verb is generally used.
'Renounce' implies an outright rejection, there's a certain animosity in 'renounce', which is not present in APOTASSO. Furthermore, in general, when you 'take leave' (APOTASSO), it doesn't preclude the possibility of returning. In fact, when Paul uses APOTASSO in Acts 18:21, he explicitly says he is returning. This further illustrates the complete lack of animosity towards the object from which you are 'taking leave' implied APOTASSO.
6GE "GAY" (γη) "earth", "land" (remember that they didn't understand about the Earth being a planet floating in space yet), sometimes "ground" or "dirt".
7imperative
version 3.85.
On 08 Sep 2009, 19:29.