Luke 14 — Greek text and reception
Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.
Chapter 14
Places at the feast and the cost of discipleship
Verse 14:1
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And it happened that He went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, and they were watching Him closely.
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Verse 14:2
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And behold, a certain man suffering from dropsy was before Him.
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ὑδρωπικός identifies dropsy, a condition of swelling from retained fluid. No more specific underlying disease is inferred.
Verse 14:3
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Jesus spoke to the experts in the Law and the Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”
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Verse 14:4
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But they were silent. And He took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him away.
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Verse 14:5
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And He said to them, “Which of you, if his son or ox falls into a well, will not pull him out at once on the Sabbath day?”
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The Greek base has ‘son or ox,’ not ‘donkey or ox.’ The surprising pairing is retained.
Verse 14:6
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And they were unable to answer these things.
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Verse 14:7
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He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they chose the foremost places at table. He said to them,
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Verse 14:8
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“When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not recline in the foremost place, lest someone more honored than you has been invited by him,
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Reclining and ranked places reflect the meal’s own imagery; they are not replaced throughout with modern seating arrangements.
Verse 14:9
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and the one who invited both you and him comes and says to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then you will begin, with shame, to occupy the last place.
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Verse 14:10
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But when you are invited, go and recline in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will have honor before all who recline at table with you.
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Verse 14:11
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For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Verse 14:12
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He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a midday meal or a supper, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you receive repayment.
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Verse 14:13
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But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the disabled, the lame, and the blind.
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ἀνάπειροι, χωλοί, and τυφλοί are preserved as distinct descriptions: disabled, lame, and blind. Their order changes in verse twenty-one, and the translation follows that order.
Verse 14:14
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And you will be blessed, because they have nothing with which to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
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Verse 14:15
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When one of those reclining at table heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is whoever shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
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Verse 14:16
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But He said to him, “A certain man was giving a great supper, and he invited many.
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Verse 14:17
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At the hour of the supper he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because things are now ready.’
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Verse 14:18
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And they all alike began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I bought a field, and I need to go out and see it. I ask you, have me excused.’
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ἀπὸ μιᾶς is an elliptical idiom, here ‘all alike.’ It need not imply that the guests had conspired together.
Verse 14:19
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And another said, ‘I bought five pairs of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you, have me excused.’
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Verse 14:20
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And another said, ‘I married a wife, and for this reason I cannot come.’
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Verse 14:21
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The slave returned and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring the poor, the disabled, the blind, and the lame in here.’
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Verse 14:22
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And the slave said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and there is still room.’
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Verse 14:23
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And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and along the fences, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.
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ἀνάγκασον is a strong imperative, ‘compel.’ The text does not specify a method of compulsion; the rendering does not import a later policy into the parable.
Verse 14:24
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For I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my supper.’”
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The pronoun ‘you’ is plural, whereas the master’s preceding command addresses the slave in the singular. The shift allows the saying to address the wider hearers; quotation boundaries are editorial.
Verse 14:25
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Now great crowds were traveling with Him. He turned and said to them,
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Verse 14:26
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“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
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μισεῖ means ‘hates’; its force is retained rather than replaced in the text with ‘loves less.’ The list culminates in one’s own ψυχή, rendered life. How the relational language functions within discipleship requires interpretation beyond replacing the verb.
Verse 14:27
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Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
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Verse 14:28
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For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the expense, whether he has enough to finish it?
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Verse 14:29
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Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is unable to complete it, all who see it may begin to mock him,
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Verse 14:30
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saying, ‘This man began to build and was unable to finish.’
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Verse 14:31
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Or what king, going to meet another king in war, will not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
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Verse 14:32
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And if not, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
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Verse 14:33
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So, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all his own possessions cannot be My disciple.
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ἀποτάσσεται can express taking leave of or renouncing. The object here is ‘all his own possessions,’ and ‘all’ is retained.
Verse 14:34
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Salt, then, is good. But if even the salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
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μωρανθῇ literally evokes becoming foolish, used of salt losing its savor. ‘Becomes tasteless’ conveys its contextual sense.
Verse 14:35
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It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure heap; they throw it outside. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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