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Luke 14

1 Jesus eateth with the Pharise. 4 Healeth the dropsy upon the Sabbath 8 Teacheth to be lowlie and to bid the poor to our table. 15 He telleth of the great supper. 28 He warneth them that will follow him, to lay their accounts before, what it will cost them. 34 The salt of the earth.
1.And it came to pass that when he was entered into the house of one of the chief Pharises on the Sabbath day, to ^eat bread, they watched him.
2.And behold, there was a certain man before him, which had the dropsy.
3.Then Jesus answering, spake unto the expounders of the Law, and Pharises, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?
4.And they held their peace. Then he took him, and healed him, and let him go,
5.And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass, or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?
6.And they could not answer him again to those things.
7.¶ He spake also a parable to the ghests, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms, and said unto them,
8.aWhen thou shalt be bidden of any man to a wedding, set not thy self down in the chiefest place, lest a more honourable man then thou, be bidden of him,
9.And he that bade both him and thee, come, and say to thee, Give this man room, and thou then begin with shame to take the lowest room.
10.*But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room, that when he that bade thee, cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, sit up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at table with thee.
11.*For whosoever exalteth him self, shalbe brought low, and he that humbleth him self, shalbe exalted.
12.¶ Then bsaid he also to him that had bidden him, *When thou makest a dyner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsemen, nor the rich neighbours, lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.
13.But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,
14.And thou shalt be blessed, because they can not recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
15.¶ Now when one of them that sat at table, heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that eateth bread in the kingdom of God.
16.Then said he to him, *cA 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.But they all with one mind began to make excuse: The first said unto him, I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
19.And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee, have me excused.
20.And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come.
21.So the servant returned, and shewed his master these things. Then was the good man of the house angry, and said to his servant, dGo out quickly into the places and streets of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
22.And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
23.Then the master said to the servant, Go out into the ehigh ways, and hedges, and fcompel them to come in, that mine house may be filled.
24.For I say unto you, that none of those men which were bidden, shall taste of my supper.
25.Now there went great multitudes with him, and he turned and said unto them,
26.If any man come to me, and ghate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters: yea, and his own life also, he can not be my disciple.
27.*And whosoever beareth not his cross, and cometh after me, can not be my disciple.
28.For which of you minding to build a tower, sitteth not down before, and hcounteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to perform it,
29.Lest that after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to perform it, all that behold it, begin to mock him,
30.Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to make an end?
31.Or what King going to make war against another King, sitteth not down first, and taketh counsel, whether he be able with ten thousand, to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
32.Or els while he is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
33.So likewise, whosoever he be of you, that iforsake not all that he hath, he can not be my disciple.
34.*Salt is good: kbut if salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be ^salted?

Notes

1-^.
Or, take his refection.
4-*.
Mt. 18.12.
7-a.
Which justify themselves, and know not their own fautes.
8-a.
He reproves their ambition, which desire to sit in the highest places.
8-b.
The word is drachma, which is somewhat more in value then five pence of old sterling money, and was equal with a Roman penny.
10-*.
Prov. 25.7.
11-*.
Ch. 18.14, Mt. 23.12.
12-*.
Prov. 3.9, Tob. 4.7.
12-b.
Christ reprehends only the blind affection of man, which regards nothing but a worldly recompense.
12-c.
This declares that we ought not to desire to have our portion separate from God except we will lose all.
13-d.
The Greek word signifies, so to waste all that a man reserves nothing to himself.
16-*.
Mt. 22.2, Rev. 19.9.
16-c.
He casts the Jews in the teeth with their ingratitude, which would not eat of those holy meats of God’s word, which were presented unto them, and whereunto they were bid a long time before.
16-e.
For no man had pity upon him.
18-f.
That is, against God.
20-g.
God prevents us and hears our groanings before we cry to him.
21-d.
Here is signified the calling of the Gentiles.
21-h.
He was touched with the feeling of his sin and therefore was ashamed thereof, and heavy in heart.
23-e.
God will rather receive all the rascal people of the world to his banquet, then them which are unthankful.
23-f.
This compulsion comes of the feeling of the power of God’s word, after that his word has been preached.
25-i.
God reproves the envy of such as grudge when God receives sinners to mercy.
26-g.
That is, he that casts not off all affections and desires, which draw us from Christ.
27-*.
Ch. 9.23, Mt. 10.37 and 16.24, Mk. 8.34.
28-h.
He that will profess the Gospel, must diligently consider what his profession requires, and not rashly to take in hand so great an enterprise: neither yet when he has taken in hand, in any case to forsake it.
31-k.
Your part, which art a Jew, is nothing diminished by that that Christ was also killed for the Gentiles: for he accepts not the person but feeds indifferently all them that believe in him with his body and blood to life everlasting.
33-i.
He that is not persuaded to leave all at every hour to bestow himself frankly in God’s service.
34-*.
Mt. 5.13, MK. 9.50.
34-^.
Or, seasoned.
34-k.
If they that should season others, have lost it themselves, where should a man recover it?