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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. It should be your ambition to have something set down to your credit “at the resurrection of the just.” If you do someone a kindness with a view to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And thou shalt be blessed,.... By God, with an increase of worldly substance, or with spiritual blessings, and with eternal glory and happiness; and by these poor objects, who will pray to God for a blessing upon such a kind benefactor: for they cannot recompense thee; by inviting again to a like entertainment, as rich guests can do, and when they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when one of them that sat at meat with him,.... One of the Scribes, lawyers, or Pharisees, that were guests at this feast: heard these things: which were spoken by Christ, and was pleased and affected with them, though he was ignorant: he said unto him, blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God; in the world to come, in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. Then said he unto him, — As if to prove what a privilege it is to be permitted to “eat bread” there, and that the persons who appear most likely to do so will never taste of it and that the most unlikely...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. They had accepted the invitation, so they were pledged to be present but, in the meantime, they had changed their minds with regard to their intended host, and they were unwilling to grace his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And sent his servant at supper time,.... Either John the Baptist, the harbinger and forerunner of Christ, who declared that the kingdom of heaven, or the Gospel dispensation, was at hand; and exhorted the people to believe in Christ that should come after him; or Christ himself, who is God's servant as man, of his choosing and appointing, and whom...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they all with one consent began to make excuse,.... Or, "they all together", as the Vulgate Latin version, באחת, "in one", or "at once": in Jeremiah 10:8 rendered "altogether"; and so the Ethiopic version, which adds, "with one voice": but their words and language were not the same: their excuses are differently expressed. Some render απομιας,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Yet it was supper time, and people do not generally go to see pieces of ground at night; and if the man had bought the land he ought to have seen it before he bought it. People...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. He pretended that he had bought five yoke of oxen without proving them, and that he wanted to prove them after he had bought them, when, of course, he could not cancel the bargain: a likely story! But, when men want to make an excuse, and they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And another said, I have married a wife,.... And his pretence might be, that he had his own marriage feast, and friends to attend, nor could he leave his wife directly; but his circumstances were such as made an invitation to a feast the more agreeable, and he might have brought his wife and friends along with him, who would have been as welcome...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. This man did not ask to be excused; he had married a wife, so that settled the matter, of course he could not go to the feast.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So that servant came and showed his Lord these things,.... The several excuses which those that were bidden to the supper made. So the ministers of the Gospel come to God and Christ, and give an account of the success of their ministry, which is often with grief, and not with joy: then the master of the house being angry; as well he might, at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Every true servant of Christ should go to his Lord, and tell him what reception his Master’s message has had. After service, we sometimes have an enquirers’ meeting; but after every sermon there ought to be a meeting of the servant with his Lord to tell the result of the errand on which he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the servant said,.... After he had been and brought in a large number of such as are before described, and he was directed to, and succeeded to the gathering of them in: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded; the apostles exactly observed the orders of their Lord and master; they began to preach the Gospel at Jerusalem; and being drove from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. They fetched in all the poor people, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind whom they could find, it was a great gathering, and a strange gathering, yet there was still room for more guests at the banquet.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord said unto the servant,.... A second time; that since the Jews put away the word of eternal life from them, and judged themselves unworthy of it by their contradicting and blaspheming it, he commanded his apostles to turn from them to the Gentiles; see Acts 13:45, go out into the highways and hedges: the Persic version adds, "of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. “Bring in highway-men and hedge-birds, those that have no place whereon to lay their heads; fetch them in by force if necessary, ‘that my house may be filled.’”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I say unto you,.... Most solemnly affirm it, and even swear to it, nothing is more certain, or will be found more true: that none of those men that were bidden: the impenitent and unbelieving Jews, the Scribes, and Pharisees, and the greater part of the nation; who first had the Gospel published to them, who are the many that were called,...