Luke 14:15-24

[SavedByGrace82]

When you read this Bibleverses, what do you believe Jesus wanted to say to the people by this parable?

15 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.

16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:

17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

18 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.

19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

23 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.

24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

 

[DamianWarS]

When you read this Bibleverses, what do you believe Jesus wanted to say to the people by this parable?

15 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.

16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:

17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

18 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.

19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

23 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.

24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

those who were first invited are the Jews, the chosen people of God. Through the parable each invited person had an excuse why they couldn't come and as this first list of invited people are liken to the Jews so too is their excuses. It is hard to parallel exactly what is meant by "excuses" but it is clear that for one reason or another the first group abandoned their rights as guest and if the first invited group are to be the Jews then so too did the Jews abandon their place in the Kingdom.

The master then begin to invite people off of the street and beyond so that he could fill his house for the dinner party. The people on the street and beyond can be paralleled with verses like Acts 1:8 where Jesus say "and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." where a similar hierarchy fashion from least to greatest is delivered. So Acts 1:8 concludes with "the ends of the earth" so too does this parable end with "into the highways and along the hedges" so in the end no one is left out.

The master is Christ, who the Jews rejected and who homed his home for all to partake in.

By nature of the parable one could conclude the motive for the master to search other guests was for the sole reason that his first guests did not respond to the invitation. In the same manor you could say Christianity is only here because the Jews rejected Christ. That's not exactly how I would word it and although the parable claims this the point of the parable is simply to show the right as a first chosen people can be revoked and passed on to others that may be consider less deserving (by the chosen people themselves) which I think is what Jesus is trying to address as Jews were a very proud people and considered their place among God as the greatest.

Since Jesus here was at a house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees the audience was then the Pharisees the proudest of all the Jews. Jesus seems to be first interrupted in verse 7 when the guests there were picking places of honor. Jesus offers his advise saying it is better to pick the lowest place and be exalted then the highest and be humbled. How fitting it seems that Christ's next words are of this parable where it seems honored guest are replaced with common people where the once worthy are humbled and supposed unworthy are made worthy.

 

[InSpiritInTruth]

Matthew 20:16
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

 

[SavedByGrace82]

Thanks for all your post!

I was been thinking about ont thing in this parable - did Jesus here meant that he is the King in the Kingdom of God? Jesus began to say: "A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:" And ended with this: "For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper."

 

[InSpiritInTruth]

Revelation 19:16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

 

[DamianWarS]

Thanks for all your post!

I was been thinking about ont thing in this parable - did Jesus here meant that he is the King in the Kingdom of God? Jesus began to say: "A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:" And ended with this: "For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper."

The master of the dinner party is liken to Christ himself that is for certain however the line you quote is still in context of the parable where the master is speaking to the servant saying "For I [, the master] say unto you [, the servant]..." So "my supper" is still in reference to the master's supper of the parable. This is not Jesus pausing and now addressing the audience outside of the scope of the parable talking about his own supper but instead Jesus simply finishing the parable and leaving it in his normal cryptic fashion for the audience to guess what it means.

Jesus happens to be at a dinner party of sorts himself and he ends up telling 3 parables about dinner parties at this occasion. Certainly this is no coincidence and Jesus is simply contextualizing the gospel into natural conversational topics.

Even though you are fully right to assume Jesus is taking the role of the master and thus calling himself king in the kingdom of heaven he does not directly revel this in this parable or to the audience.

 

[mercy1061]

The master of the dinner party is liken to Christ himself that is for certain however the line you quote is still in context of the parable where the master is speaking to the servant saying "For I [, the master] say unto you [, the servant]..." So "my supper" is still in reference to the master's supper of the parable. This is not Jesus pausing and now addressing the audience outside of the scope of the parable talking about his own supper but instead Jesus simply finishing the parable and leaving it in his normal cryptic fashion for the audience to guess what it means.

Amen.

Jesus happens to be at a dinner party of sorts himself and he ends up telling 3 parables about dinner parties at this occasion. Certainly this is no coincidence and Jesus is simply contextualizing the gospel into natural conversational topics.

Amen. Contrary to popular opinion, the "full" audience are the jews or Israel. There were many jews who accepted Yeshua; it was because of the "poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame" among the jews or Israel that the gentiles received the good news. Yeshua healed the crippled, the blind and the lame; this is what meant they were "summoned" or "ordered" to attend this great banquet. According to the law of Moses, those who were crippled, blind, lame, and often times the poor were excluded from religious practices in the temple. Now the poor, the lame, crippled, and the blind may worship in the temple. After the lame man was healed, the lame man went inside the temple courts praising G-D(Acts 3).

Even though you are fully right to assume Jesus is taking the role of the master and thus calling himself king in the kingdom of heaven he does not directly revel this in this parable or to the audience.

Those who were invited would be the jews, and those who accepted were also jews. The jews who did not accept this great banquet invitation did not wish to eat his body (bread) and drink his blood (wine). Those "invited" jews did not wish to suffer the cross for the sake of Yeshua. Those invited jews thought they could inherit the "promises" from Abraham without suffering or the cross. Of course Israel, later ceased being a sovreign nation like Egypt until 1948.