Luke 14:18

Translations

Modern

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.’

Traditional

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 it: I pray thee have me excused.

Literal

And all with one voice began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I bought a field, and I have need of going out to see it. I ask you, have me excused.’

Latin

Et cœperunt simul omnes excusare. Primus dixit ei: Villam emi, et necesse habeo exire, et videre illam: rogo te, habe me excusatum.

Original

Greek

English

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.’

Notes

Luke 14:18

They all began to make excuses: All these excuses would have deeply offended the host, who had spent much time and money preparing this important social event. These guests had already accepted the invitation, and their excuses were weak. Clearly, they did not want to come to the banquet.
I have bought a field, and I need to go see it: No one would buy a field without seeing it first.

Luke 14:15–24

This parable shows what was happening in the ministry of Jesus. The rich, powerful, and important people rejected his invitation to God’s banquet of salvation, so they would be left out. Meanwhile, poor people and outcasts accepted the invitation (see also 1:52–53; 6:21, 25; 10:15; 18:14).

Theme notes and profiles

Rich and Poor in the Gospel of Luke The Messianic Banquet

Events

Teaching and Healing in Perea to Jerusalemc. AD 30

Related verses

Luke 17:26–31
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Luke 18:24
Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
1 Timothy 6:9–10
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
Isaiah 29:11–12
And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
Matthew 24:38–39
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Luke 8:14
The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
John 5:40
…yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
Acts 18:5–6
And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
1 John 2:15–16
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
2 Timothy 4:4
So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Isaiah 28:12–13
…to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

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