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Luke 14:22

Luke 14:22
And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Yet there is room - He went out and invited all he found in the lanes, and yet the table was not full. This he also reported to his master. “There is room!” What a glorious declaration is this in…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

And yet there is room - On some occasions, so numerous are the guests that there is not room for them to sit in the court of the person who makes the feast, and a larger is therefore borrowed.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 14:15-24

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

and yet there is room -Grace, no less than Nature, abhors a vacuum." Bengel.