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Luke 14:16

Then sayde he vnto hym. A certayne man ordayned a great supper, and bad many,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covetousness;   Feasts;   Gospel;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Kingdom of Heaven;   Opportunity;   Reproof;   Salvation;   Unbelief;   Thompson Chain Reference - Absorption;   Bible Stories for Children;   Business;   Business Life;   Children;   Feasts;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Food, Spiritual;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Spiritual;   Stories for Children;   The Topic Concordance - Kingdom of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Entertainments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Food;   Grace;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christ, Christology;   Dead Sea Scrolls;   Gospel;   Grace;   Hospitality;   Kingdom of God;   Lord's Supper, the;   Wealth;   Work;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Call, Calling;   Family;   Luke, Gospel of;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Kingdom of God;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Parable;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Business (2);   Call, Calling;   Circumstantiality in the Parables;   Courtesy;   Discourse;   Dropsy;   Excuse;   Invitation;   Israel, Israelite;   Kindness (2);   Lazarus;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Marriage;   Meals;   Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Sacraments;   Supper ;   Unity (2);   Wealth (2);   Wedding Garment;   Worldliness (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Prophet, the;   Supper;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Meals;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Supper;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Banquet;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Maimed;   Meals;   Mercy;   Providence;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he told him: “A man was giving a large banquet and invited many.
King James Version (1611)
Then said hee vnto him, A certaine man made a great supper, and bade many:
King James Version
Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
English Standard Version
But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.
New American Standard Bible
But He said to him, "A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;
New Century Version
Jesus said to him, "A man gave a big banquet and invited many people.
Amplified Bible
But Jesus said to him, "A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many guests;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But He said to him, "A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;
Legacy Standard Bible
And He said to him, "A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many.
Berean Standard Bible
But Jesus replied, "A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests.
Contemporary English Version
Jesus told him: A man once gave a great banquet and invited a lot of guests.
Complete Jewish Bible
But he replied, "Once a man gave a banquet and invited many people.
Darby Translation
And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus said to him, "A man gave a big dinner. He invited many people.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then saide he to him, A certaine man made a great supper, and bade many,
George Lamsa Translation
Jesus said to him, A man gave a great supper, and invited many.
Good News Translation
Jesus said to him, "There was once a man who was giving a great feast to which he invited many people.
Lexham English Bible
But he said to him, "A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.
Literal Translation
But He said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.
American Standard Version
But he said unto him, A certain man made a great supper; and he bade many:
Bible in Basic English
And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.
Hebrew Names Version
But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
Jeshu saith to him, A certain man made a great supper, and called many. And he sent his servant,
Murdock Translation
Jesus said to him: A certain man made a great supper, and invited many.
English Revised Version
But he said unto him, A certain man made a great supper; and he bade many:
World English Bible
But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then said he to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.
Weymouth's New Testament
"A man once gave a great dinner," replied Jesus, "to which he invited a large number of guests.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he seide to hym, A man made a greet soper, and clepide many.
Update Bible Version
But he said to him, A certain man made a great supper; and he bade many:
Webster's Bible Translation
Then said he to him, A certain man made a great supper, and invited many:
New English Translation
But Jesus said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.
New King James Version
Then He said to him, "A certain man gave a great supper and invited many,
New Living Translation
Jesus replied with this story: "A man prepared a great feast and sent out many invitations.
New Life Bible
Then Jesus said to the leader of the proud religious law-keepers, "There was a man who was giving a big supper. He asked many people to come to eat.
New Revised Standard
Then Jesus said to him, "Someone gave a great dinner and invited many.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, he, said unto him - A certain man, was making a great supper, and invited many;
Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper and invited many.
Revised Standard Version
But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sayd he to him. A certayne man ordened a greate supper and bade many
Young's Literal Translation
and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But he sayde vnto him: A certayne ma made a greate supper, and called many ther to.
Mace New Testament (1729)
upon which Jesus said, a certain man made a great entertainment; where many were invited.
THE MESSAGE
Jesus followed up. "Yes. For there was once a man who threw a great dinner party and invited many. When it was time for dinner, he sent out his servant to the invited guests, saying, ‘Come on in; the food's on the table.'
Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus said, "There was once a rancher who was having a great big BBQ.

Contextual Overview

15 When one of them, that sate at meate also, hearde these thynges, he sayde vnto hym: Happy is he that eateth bread in the kyngdome of God. 16 Then sayde he vnto hym. A certayne man ordayned a great supper, and bad many, 17 And sent his seruaunt at supper tyme, to say to them that were bydden, come, for all thynges are nowe redy. 18 And they all at once began to make excuse. The first sayde vnto hym: I haue bought a farme, & I must needes go & see it, I pray thee haue me excused. 19 And another sayde: I haue bought fiue yoke of oxen, and I go to proue them, I pray thee haue me excused. 20 And another sayde: I haue maryed a wyfe, and therfore I can not come. 21 And the seruaunt returned, & shewed his maister these thynges. Then was the good man of the house displeased, & sayde to his seruaunt: Go out quickly into the brode streates and lanes of the citie, and bryng in hyther the poore, and the feeble, and the halt, and the blynde. 22 And the seruaunt sayde: Lorde, it is done as thou hast commaunded, and yet there is rowme. 23 And the Lorde sayde to the seruaunt: Go out into the hye wayes & hedges, and compell them to come in, that my house may be fylled. 24 For I say vnto you, that none of those men which were bydden, shall taste of my supper.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A certain: Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 9:2, Isaiah 25:6, Isaiah 25:7, Jeremiah 31:12-14, Zechariah 10:7, Matthew 22:2-14

bade: Song of Solomon 5:1, Isaiah 55:1-7, Mark 16:15, Mark 16:16, Revelation 3:20, Revelation 22:17

Reciprocal: Zephaniah 1:7 - he hath Matthew 13:22 - the care Matthew 22:1 - General Acts 13:46 - seeing Revelation 19:9 - Blessed

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be [euen] a blessyng.
Genesis 14:11
And they takyng all the goodes of Sodome and Gomorrhe, and all their vittayles, went their way.
Genesis 14:12
And they caryed awaye Lot also Abrams brothers sonne, & his goodes, (for he dwelled in Sodome) and departed.
Genesis 14:18
And Melchisedech kyng of Salem brought foorth breade and wine: & he [was] the priest of the most highest God,
Genesis 14:19
And blessed hym, saying: Blessed be Abram vnto the hygh God possessour of heauen and earth.
1 Samuel 30:8
And Dauid asked councel at the Lord, saying: Shall I follow after this company? shall I ouertake them? And he aunswered him: Folowe, for thou shalt suerlie ouertake them, and recouer all.
Isaiah 41:2
Who raysed vp the iust man from the east, and called hym to go foorth? who cast downe the people, and subdued the kynges before him? that he may throw them al to the ground with his sworde, and scatter them lyke stubble with his bowe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said he unto him,.... That is, Jesus, as the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions express it; he said to the man that was so affected with the happiness of such that shall share in the provisions of the Messiah's kingdom;

a certain man made a great supper: by which is meant not the Lord's supper, which was not as yet instituted; nor the supper of the Lamb, which will be at the end of the world; but the Gospel dispensation, which was now taking place, and the provisions of it in the word and ordinances: and which is called a "supper"; because made in the end of the world, in the last days: and a "great" one, because of the maker of it, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; and the matter of it, a variety of rich provisions, a feast of fat things, an entertainment consisting of the greatest dainties, and most delightful food; and on account of the number of the guests invited, all people, every creature, to whom the outward ministration of the Gospel comes; and those who are properly guests that come, are a great number which no man can number; as well as because of the cost and charges of it to the maker, though it is all free to the guests; and likewise because of the circumstances of exceeding great joy and pleasure that attend it; to which may be added, the long duration of it, even from the first to the second coming of Christ.

And bade many. This first bidding more especially respects the Jews, who are said to be "many", in reference to the promise made to Abraham, that his seed should be as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand of the sea; and to set off the magnificence of the feast; and in distinction from all the world, and every creature, which were afterwards put into the Gospel commission: a foundation was laid for this supper in eternity, in the purposes, counsel, and covenant of God; and many prophecies concerning it were given out from the beginning; and sacrifices and ordinances were instituted, as emblematical of it, and to lead on to it, and give notice of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A great supper - Or great feast. It is said to be “great” on account of the number who were invited.

Bade many - Invited many beforehand. There is little difficulty in understanding this parable. The man who made the supper is, without doubt, designed to represent God; the supper, the provisions which he has made for the salvation of people; and the invitation, the offers which he made to people, particularly to the Jews, of salvation. See a similar parable explained in the notes at Matthew 22:1-14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. - 24. A certain man made a great supper, &c.] See a similar parable to this, though not spoken on the same occasion, explained, Matthew 22:1-14.


 
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