Lukas 14:19

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

En een ander zeide: Ik heb vijfjuk ossen gekocht, en ik ga nu heen om die te beproeven; ik bid u, verontschuldig mij.

Parallel Translations

Staten Vertaling
En een ander zeide: Ik heb vijf juk ossen gekocht, en ik ga heen, om die te beproeven; ik bid u, houd mij voor verontschuldigd.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Een ander zeide: Ik heb vijf span runderen gekocht en ga ze beproeven; ik bid u, verschoon mij.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Mark 4:15 - these

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen,.... To plough the field with,

and I go to prove them: this also being at, or near evening, was an unsuitable time to go into the field with yokes of oxen to try them, how they would draw the plough, and work in the field; the morning would have been a much more proper time:

I pray thee have me excused; to the master of the feast: this man represents also the carnal and worldly Jews, who preferred temporal things before spiritual.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I go to prove them - To try them, to see if he had made a good bargain. It is worthy of remark that this excuse was very trifling. He could as easily have tried them at any other time as then, and his whole conduct shows that he was more disposed to gratify “himself” than to accept the invitation of his friend. He was selfish; just as all sinners are, who, to gratify their own worldliness and sins, refuse to accept the offers of the gospel.