Luke 14:18

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…

I have bought a piece of ground - Perhaps he had purchased it on condition that he found it as good as it had been represented to him. I must needs go - I have necessity, or am obliged to go and see…

Here is another discourse of our Saviour's, in which he spiritualizes the feast he was invited to, which is another way of keeping up good discourse in the midst of common actions.

I. The occasion of…

with one consent i.e. apo mias gnomes;or -with one voice," if we understand phones.

to make excuse The Greek word is the exact equivalent of our - to beg off."The same fact is indicated in Joh 1:11;…