Luke 14:30

Modern

…saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

Traditional

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Literal

…saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’?

Latin

…dicentes: Quia hic homo cœpit ædificare, et non potuit consummare?

Greek

English

…saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

large crowds were traveling with Jesus: Jesus was very popular, but he was about to teach that the cost of following him was also very high.

Theme notes and profiles

Hebrews 6:11
We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.
Hebrews 6:4–8
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
2 Peter 2:19–22
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
1 Corinthians 3:11–14
For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Acts 1:18–19
(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.
Hebrews 10:38
But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
Matthew 7:27
The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
Matthew 27:3–8
When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.