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lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/alford/luke/14.htm" title="Henry Alford - Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary">Alford</a> • <a href="/commentaries/barnes/luke/14.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/bengel/luke/14.htm" title="Bengel's Gnomen">Bengel</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/luke/14.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/luke/14.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/luke/14.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/luke/14.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/luke/14.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/luke/14.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/luke/14.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/luke/14.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/luke/14.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/egt/luke/14.htm" title="Expositor's Greek">Exp Grk</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/luke/14.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/luke/14.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/luke/14.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/luke/14.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/luke/14.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/luke/14.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/luke/13-24.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/luke/14.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/icc/luke/14.htm" title="ICC NT Commentary">ICC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/luke/14.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/luke/14.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/luke/14.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/luke/14.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/luke/14.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/luke/14.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/luke/14.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/meyer/luke/14.htm" title="Meyer Commentary">Meyer</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/luke/14.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pnt/luke/14.htm" title="People's New Testament">PNT</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/luke/14.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/luke/14.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/luke/14.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/luke/14.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/luke/14.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/vws/luke/14.htm" title="Vincent's Word Studies">VWS</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/luke/14.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/luke/14.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">Sit not down.</span>—Literally, <span class= "ital">recline not.</span><p><span class= "bld">Lest a more honourable man than thou . . .</span>—The words imply that the common practice was for the guests to seat themselves; then, as in the parable of the wedding garment (<a href="/matthew/22-11.htm" title="And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:">Matthew 22:11</a>), the host came in “to see the guests.”<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/luke/14.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>14:7-14 Even in the common actions of life, Christ marks what we do, not only in our religious assemblies, but at our tables. We see in many cases, that a man's pride will bring him low, and before honour is humility. Our Saviour here teaches, that works of charity are better than works of show. But our Lord did not mean that a proud and unbelieving liberality should be rewarded, but that his precept of doing good to the poor and afflicted should be observed from love to him.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/luke/14.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Art bidden - Are invited.<p>To a wedding - A wedding was commonly attended with a feast or banquet.<p>The highest room - The seat at the table nearest the head.<p>A more honourable man - A more aged man, or a man of higher rank. It is to be remarked that our Saviour did not consider the courtesies of life to be beneath his notice. His chief design here was, no doubt, to reprove the pride and ambition of the Pharisees; but, in doing it, he teaches us that religion does not violate the courtesies of life. It does not teach us to be rude, forward, pert, assuming, and despising the proprieties of refined social contact. It teaches humility and kindness, and a desire to make all happy, and a willingness to occupy our appropriate situation and rank in life; and this is true "politeness," for true politeness is a desire to make all others happy, and a readiness to do whatever is necessary to make them so. They have utterly mistaken the nature of religion who suppose that because they are professed Christians, they must be rude and uncivil, and violate all the distinctions in society. The example and precepts of Jesus Christ were utterly unlike such conduct. He teaches us to be kind, and to treat people according to their rank and character. Compare <a href="/matthew/22-21.htm">Matthew 22:21</a>; <a href="/romans/13-7.htm">Romans 13:7</a>; <a href="/1_peter/2-17.htm">1 Peter 2:17</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/luke/14.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>8. wedding—and seating thyself at the wedding feast. Our Lord avoids the appearance of personality by this delicate allusion to a different kind of entertainment than this of his host [Bengel].<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/luke/14.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div>Ver. 8-11. Two or three moral instructions we have in this parable. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. That the law of Christ justifieth none in any rudeness and incivility. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. That the disciples of Christ ought to have a regard to their reputation, to do nothing they may be ashamed of. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. That it is according to the will of God, that honour should be given to those to whom honour belongeth; that the more honourable persons should sit in the more honourable places. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Grace gives men no exterior preference; though it makes men all glorious, yet it is within. But the more spiritual instruction (for which our Saviour put forth this parable) is in <span class="bld"><a href="/luke/14-11.htm" title="For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.">Luke 14:11</a></span>. Our Saviour had but now, in the sight of these Pharisees, cured a man of a bodily dropsy; he is now attempting a cure of the spiritual dropsy of pride in their souls. He had before denounced a woe against the Pharisees for loving <span class="ital">the uppermost seats in the synagogues, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/luke/11-43.htm" title="Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.">Luke 11:43</a></span>, and told us, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/23-6.htm" title="And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,">Matthew 23:6</a></span>, that they <span class="ital">loved the uppermost rooms at feasts, </span> and possibly he might at this feast see something of it. He therefore applies his discourse by pressing upon them humility, and showing them the danger of pride, which though it be a vice seated in the heart, yet by such little things discovereth itself in the outward conversation. He tells them, that God is such an enemy to pride, that he ordinarily so ordereth it in the government of the world, that usually self-exalting people are by one means or other abused, and brought to shame and contempt, and those that are low in their own eyes are exalted; and if it doth not so fall out here, yet this will be what will at the last day befall them, in the day of God’s righteous judgment. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/matthew/23-12.htm" title="And whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.">Matthew 23:12</a>"</span>. We shall meet with the same again, <span class="bld"><a href="/luke/18-14.htm" title="I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.">Luke 18:14</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/luke/14.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding,.... To a wedding dinner, or to any other; such an one as the present entertainment was, which was not a marriage feast, for they might not marry on the sabbath day; See Gill on <a href="/john/2-1.htm">John 2:1</a> but a common sabbath meal: <p>sit not down in the highest room: in the chief place at table, as soon as come in: <p>lest a more honourable man; for age, office, dignity, wisdom, learning, or riches: <p>than thou be bidden of him: the master of the feast; and who may not yet be come, and for whom the chief place may be designed, and will better suit him. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/luke/14.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/luke/14.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/luke/14-8.htm" title="When you are bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honorable man than you be bidden of him;">Luke 14:8</a>. <span class="greekheb">γάμους</span>, a marriage feast, here representing all great social functions at which ambition for distinction is called into play.—<span class="greekheb">ἐντιμότερός σου</span>: this does not necessarily denote one of known superior social standing, but may mean simply one held in more honour by the host (Hahn).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/luke/14.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">8</span>. <span class="ital">to a wedding</span>] The term is used generally for any great feast; but perhaps our Lord here adopted it to make His lesson less immediately personal.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">a more honourable man than thou</span>] <a href="/philippians/2-3.htm" title="Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.">Php 2:3</a>, “in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/luke/14.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/luke/14-8.htm" title="When you are bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honorable man than you be bidden of him;">Luke 14:8</a>. <span class="greekheb">Εἰς γάμους</span>, <span class="ital">to a wedding-feast</span>) There was no wedding then going forward; therefore this element is introduced into the parable for the sake of treating of social civic life.—<span class="greekheb">μὴ</span>, <span class="ital">not</span>) comp. <a href="/context/proverbs/25-6.htm" title="Put not forth yourself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:...">Proverbs 25:6-7</a> [“Stand not in the place of great men: for better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither, than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince”]. Each man knows his own calling, not that of all others.—<span class="greekheb">εἰς τὴν πρωτοκλισίαν</span>) <span class="ital">in the highest seat</span>. To this, which is in the singular, there corresponds the word <span class="greekheb">ἐντιμότερος</span>, <span class="ital">one more honourable</span>, and <span class="greekheb">τὸν ἔσχατον τόπον</span>, <span class="ital">the lowest place</span>. The proud man sets himself before not merely some men, but all men; <a href="/context/psalms/10-4.htm" title="The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts....">Psalm 10:4-5</a>.—<span class="greekheb">ἐντιμότερος</span>) This in the parable marks one esteemed <span class="ital">more honourable</span> among men (LXX., <a href="/numbers/22-15.htm" title="And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.">Numbers 22:15</a>): and at the same time one who is esteemed, in the main aim of his life, more precious in the sight of God, even though sometimes coming [to the heavenly feast] somewhat late. Moreover, the humble man esteems all others more precious and ‘honourable’ than himself. Comp. <a href="http://apocrypha.org/ecclesiasticus/10-7.htm" title="Pride is hateful before God and man: and by both doth one commit iniquity.">Sir 10:7</a> to <a href="http://apocrypha.org/ecclesiasticus/11-6.htm" title="Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the honourable delivered into other men's hands.">Sir 11:6</a>, in the Greek.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/luke/14.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 8, 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">When thou art hidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room</span>. The pretensions and conceit of the Jewish doctors of the Law had been for a long period intolerable. We have repeated examples in the Talmud of the exaggerated estimate these, the scholars and doctors of the Law, formed of themselves, and of the respect they exacted from all classes of the community. One can well imagine the grave displeasure with which the Divine Teacher looked upon this unholy frame of mind, and upon the miserable petty struggles which constantly were resulting from it. The expositors of the Law of God, the religious guides of the people, were setting an example of self-seeking, were showing what was their estimate of a fitting reward, what was the crown of learning which they coveted - the first seats at a banquet, the title of respect and honour! How the Lord - the very essence of whose teaching was self-surrender and self-sacrifice - must have mourned over such pitiful exhibitions of weakness shown by the men who claimed to sit in Moses' seat! <span class="cmt_word">Lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place</span>. As an instance of such unseemly contention, Dr. Farrar quotes from the Talmud how, "at a banquet of King Alexander Jannaeus, the rabbi Simeon ben Shetach, in spite of the presence of some great Persian satraps, had thrust himself at table between the king and queen, and when rebuked for his intrusion quoted in his defence Ecclus. 15:5, 'Exalt wisdom, and She... shall make thee sit among princes.'" Luke 14:8<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/luke/14.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>Wedding<p>More properly, marriage-feast. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/luke/14-8.htm">Luke 14:8 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../luke/14-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Luke 14:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Luke 14:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../luke/14-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Luke 14:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Luke 14:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>