Verse 16
Luke 14:16
Young's Literal Translation
16
and he said to him, 'A certain man made a great supper, and called many,
Original Language Text
greek
ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Ἄνθρωπός τις ⸀ἐποίει δεῖπνον μέγα, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν πολλούς,
English Translation
But he said to him, "A certain man was making a great dinner and invited many."
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Chapter 14 Context
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And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on...
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and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;
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and Yashua (Jesus) answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, 'Is it lawful on the sabbat...
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and they were silent, and having taken hold of [him], he healed him, and let [him] go;
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and answering them he said, 'Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a pit, and he will not imm...
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and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.
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And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, sayin...
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'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couc...
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and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then tho...
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'But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called...
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because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be...
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And he said also to him who did call him, 'When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not callin...
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but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind,
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and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to th...
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And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, 'Happy [is] he who shal...
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and he said to him, 'A certain man made a great supper, and called many,
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and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, bec...
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'And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought,...
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'And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me exc...
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and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.
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'And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having b...
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'And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room.
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'And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that...
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for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'
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And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them,
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'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children,...
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and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.
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'For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, wheth...
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lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin...
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saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
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'Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult...
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and if not so -- he being yet a long way off -- having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for p...
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'So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be m...
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'The salt [is] good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
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neither for land nor for manure is it fit -- they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear --...
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