Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 14:21

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21. came, and showed, c.—saying as in Isaiah 53:1 . "It is the part of ministers to report to the Lord in their prayers the compliance or refusal of their hearers" [BENGEL]. angry —in one sense a gracious word, showing how sincere he was in issuing his invitations ( Ezekiel 33:11 ). But it is the slight put upon him, the sense of which is intended to be marked by this word. streets and lanes — historically, those within the same pale of "the city" of God as the former class, but the despised and outcasts of the nation, the "publicans and sinners" [TRENCH] generally, all similar classes, usually overlooked in the first provision for supplying the means of grace to a community, half heathen in the midst of revealed light, and in every sense miserable. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-22" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-luk-14-004

절 (explains)

bible-text/luk-14-21

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological