- Bible
- Luke
- Chapter 14
- Verse 22
And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
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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,…
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…
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.
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…
Cambridge Bible
and yet there is room -Grace, no less than Nature, abhors a vacuum." Bengel.
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