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Selected Verse: Luke 14:13 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 14:13 |
King James |
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| call the poor--"Such God Himself calls" (Luk 14:21) [BENGEL]. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The poor - Those who are destitute of comfortable food.
The maimed - Those who are deprived of any member of their body, as an arm or a leg or who have not the use of them so that they can labor for their own support. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Feast (δοχήν)
Or reception. Used by Luke only. See on Luk 5:29. |
21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.