Luke.14.1
14:1 in the home of a leader of the Pharisees: In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is frequently seen dining.
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Luke.14.12-13
14:12-13 don’t invite your friends: Jesus challenged the prevailing use of banquets to flaunt and elevate one’s status in the community. The host would invite friends of equal status and a few who were higher. These honored guests would then be expected to reciprocate, raising the first host’s social position and reputation. Jesus turned this hierarchy upsid...
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14:12-13 don’t invite your friends: Jesus challenged the prevailing use of banquets to flaunt and elevate one’s status in the community. The host would invite friends of equal status and a few who were higher. These honored guests would then be expected to reciprocate, raising the first host’s social position and reputation. Jesus turned this hierarchy upside down by instructing his followers to invite those who had no social status and could not reciprocate. God invites sinful human beings to dine at his banquet table of salvation.
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Luke.14.14
14:14 the resurrection of the righteous: see Dan 12:2.
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Luke.14.15-24
14:15-24 This parable portrays what was happening in Jesus’ ministry. The rich, powerful, and elite rejected Jesus’ invitation to God’s salvation banquet and would be shut out. Meanwhile, poor people and outcasts responded to the invitation (see also 1:52-53; 6:21, 25; 10:15; 18:14).
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Cross Reference8 items
deuteronomy 20:7
deuteronomy 20:7
deuteronomy 24:5
deuteronomy 24:5
proverbs 25:6-7
proverbs 25:6-7
isaiah 25:6
isaiah 25:6
isaiah 65:13-14
isaiah 65:13-14
daniel 12:2
daniel 12:2
matthew 8:11-12
matthew 8:11-12
luke 1:52-53
luke 1:52-53
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The Messianic Banquet
The Messianic Banquet
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The Messianic Banquet Through his teaching and miracles, Jesus announced that the messianic banquet was about to be served. All may come and feast at the table of salvation in God’s Kingdom. Jesus described his ministry as a wedding feast, with himself as the groom (Luke 5:33-35) and the Kingdom of God as a great banquet. All were invited, but some refused to come (Luke 14:15-24; see also Matt 8:11-12). Jesus often ate with diverse people, from despised tax collectors to pious Pharisees (5:29-32; 7:36-50; 11:37-41; 14:1-6). Jesus also used imagery of feasting and banquets in his teaching and parables (5:33-35; 12:35-38; 14:7-14, 15-24; 17:7-10; 22:28-30). And he fed vast multitudes with a few loaves and fishes (9:10-17). The Old Testament background to this feasting imagery is Isa 25:6, where God’s final salvation is described as a great feast for all people: “The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will spread a wonderful feast for all the people of the world. It will be a delicious banquet, with clear, well-aged wine and choice meat” (see also Isa 65:13-14). Jesus’ public ministry marked the invitation to the banquet and its inauguration. Through his death and resurrection, he ac...
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