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Luke 14 Bible study: A great supper
At one table Jesus speaks in turn to the guests about where to sit (14:7-11), to his host about whom to invite (14:12-14), and to one guest with a story of a great supper (14:15-24), and one word, invited, runs through all three. Then, to the great multitudes going with him, he says three times, "can’t be my disciple" (14:26, 14:27, 14:33).
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“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
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What's really going on
"Jesus, answering"
"When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him" (14:1). "Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him" (14:2). Here is what almost everyone misses: Luke tells of no one saying a word to Jesus, and yet "Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”" (14:3). "But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go" (14:4). Then he asks again: "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?" (14:5). And Luke ends the scene, "They couldn’t answer him regarding these things" (14:6). Luke says no more of the man's illness than its name, and neither do these notes.
Where the Old Testament leads here
When you make a feast
Deuteronomy 16:11leads toLuke 14:13-14
At the feast of weeks Israel is to rejoice with "the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you" (16:11). Eating at a Pharisee's house (Luke 14:1), Jesus said, "But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous" (Luke 14:13-14). Jesus doesn't cite Deuteronomy 16, so setting them together is a reading. Some hear in his words the same kind of table this chapter sets, where the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow are named among those who rejoice at the feast. Others read his words as answering the meal in front of him, about whom a host invites and who repays (Luke 14:12), with no look back to Israel's feasts.
Honest questions
Questions people ask about Luke 14
- Jesus says that anyone who comes to him "and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple" (14:26). What does he mean?
- In the story, the lord says, "compel them to come in" (14:23). What does he mean, and who are they?
- Who are the man who made the great supper, the guests who made excuses, and those who were brought in?
That was a taste
The rest of Luke 14 is waiting in Favor
- Guests, then the host, then a guest
- Three times, "can’t be my disciple"
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- 17 questions as you read
- 9 more Greek words
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The Greek word behind it
καλέωkaleosay kal-EH-o
Thayer, listing 14:8 and 14:16 among other verses: "equivalent to to invite". The WEB has invited ten times in this chapter, in 14:7, 14:8 (twice), 14:9, 14:10 (twice), 14:12, 14:16, 14:17 and 14:24, and behind every one of them is this verb. It is behind ask in 14:13 too: "ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind". Luke's Greek has the verb 42 times (counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates), and 11 of them are in this chapter. Two words close by are not this one: call in "don’t call your friends" (14:12) is another verb, and called in "many are called" (14:24) is another word.
For your group
Luke 14 Bible study questions
- 1Jesus says, "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (14:11). Where are you most tempted to reach for the best seat, and what would the lowest place look like there this week?
- 2Jesus told his host, "when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind" (14:13). Who is someone you could make room for this week who can't do anything for you in return, and what would it take?
- 3Jesus says, "Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple" (14:27), and then asks who would build a tower without first sitting down to "count the cost" (14:28). What has coming after Jesus cost you so far, and what helps you keep going?
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