Christ lamenteth LUKE XIII. 24k Strive to enter in at the strait gate:| for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. & 8. 21. & 13. 33. Ro. 9. 31. 25 m When once them Is. 55. 5. master of the house Ps. 32. 6. is risen up, and n hath n Ma. 25. 10. shut to the door, and o ch. 6. 46. ye begin to stand p Ma. 7. 23. without, and to knock & 25. 12. at the door, saying, ver. 25. Lord, o Lord, open Ma. 7. 23. unto us; and he shall & 25.12.41. answer and say untor Ps. 6. 8. you, I know you Ma. 25. 41. not whence ye are : 26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk int thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. 27 9 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. s Ma. 8. 12. u Ma. 8. 11. & 20. 16. x He. 2. 10. Ma.23.37. z Le. 26. 31, 32. Ps. 69. 25. Da. 9. 27. Mi. 3. 12. 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ver. 24— * Αγωνίζεσθε, ye shall see Abra- as wrestlers. ham, and Isaac, and This word Jacob, and all the wherever it is used, prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you idea of conconveys the yourselves thrust out. tention, or 29 And they shall striving, come from the east, with labour, and from the west, perseverance and selfand from the north, denial. and from the south, over Jerusalem. and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. 30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last 31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. 32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day 1 shall be perfected. 33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. 34 y O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! 35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye CHAP. XIV. 1 AND it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. Ps.118 26. humility. they choose out the thou art Jno. 12.13. to a wedding, sit not a Ma. 12. 10. down in the highest b ch. 13. 15. room; lest a more Ex. 23. 5. honourable man than c Pr. 25.6,7. d Ps. 18. 27. Ja. 4. 6. 1 Pe. 5. 5. * Our Lord, of 9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. 10 But when thou 2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which ver. 11had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus an-among the seeing art bidden, go and swering spake unto guests a de- sit down in the lowest the Lawyers and sire of pre-room; that when he Pharisees, saying, eminence, in that bade thee comIs a it lawful to heal a firm yet mild manner on the sabbath day? warns them 4 And they held of the result. their peace. And he Scott obtook him, and healed serves here, "That spihim, and let him go ritual pride 5 And answered and ambition them, saying,bWhich have excludof you shall have an ed numbers. from the ass or an ox fallen kingdom of into a pit, and will Christ, pronot straightway pull duced the him out on the sab-most lamentbath day? able effects eth, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. 11 d For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 12 Then said he also to him that bade When church, and him, 6 And they could in the visible not answer him again done imto these things. Christians and ministers." mense injury 7 And he put forth to many true a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they' cannot recompense ver. 13thee for thou shalt be recompensed the resurrection the just. • Christ doth not forat bid us to inof vite our friends that 15 And when one we may shew of them that sat at them kindmeat with him heard ness; but he would not these things, he said have us do unto him, f Blessed is it out of rehe that shall eat bread spect of a in the kingdom of compensaGod. tion; and further, all 16 g Then said he needless unto him, A certain expence should be man made a great supper, and bade spared in many: order that our poor part of 17 And h sent his neighbour servant at supper time may have to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. what we The word 18 And they all αναγκασον, with one consent be- compel, fre 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. 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and there is room. yet 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say unto those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. gan to make excuse. quently sig-you, iThat none of The first said unto nifies pressing persua him, I have bought sion; and a piece of ground, referring to and I must needs go a banquet, and see it: I pray ply compulthee have me ex- sory force. cused. cannot im 25 And there went him: and he turned, great multitudes with and said unto them, The parable of 26k if any man come to me, I and hate* not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, in and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. LUKE XV. the lost sheep. A. D. 33. sendeth an ambasand desireth k De. 13. 6. Sage, conditions of peace. & 33. 9. Ma. 10. 37. 33 So likewise, Ro. 9. 13. whosoever he be of m Re. 12.11. you that forsaketh not all that he hath,' Ma. 16.24. he cannot be my disMar. 8.34. ciple. n ch. 9. 23. 2 Ti. 3. 12. 34 P Salt is good: Pr. 24. 27. but if the salt have his savour, shall it ver. 26- lost be seasoned? 35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 27 And n whosoever doth not bear o his cross, and come p Ma. 5. 13. after me, cannot be Mar. 9.50. wherewith my disciple. a Ma. 9. 10. 28 For which of b Ac. 11. 3. you, intending to Ga. 2. 12. build a tower, sitteth e Ma. 18. 12. not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This where the man began to build, true meanand was not able to word is exing of this finish. dearest ob- Ma. 10. 37. & 6. 24. pressed. ver. 33 31 Or what king, going to make war. Such against another king, superior love sitteth not down first, to the Saand consulteth whe- viour must be ther he be able with possessed by ten thousand to meet that he will his disciple, him that cometh be willing to against him with do this twenty thousand? whenever 32 Or else, while the will of the other is yet a great way off, hel God should require it. CHAP. XV. 1 THEN a drew near unto him all the Publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, band eateth with them. 3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he Of the prece LUKE XV. hath found it, he lay-, A. D. 33. eth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends d and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found. my sheep which was lost. d Is. C6.13. & 15. 14. of silver. certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth 1Pe. 2. 10. to me. And he divi25. ded unto them his living. & 2. 17. ch. 5. 32. Ma. 18.13. halfpenny, t Drachma 7 I say unto you, here transthat likewise joy lated a piece shall be in heaven of silver, is the eighth over one sinner that part of an repenteth, more than ounce, which over ninety and nine cometh to just persons, which sevenpence need no repentance. 8 Either what wo man having ten man penny. pieces of silver, if Ma. 18. 28. she lose one piece, f Mar.12.44. doth not light a canhouse, and seek dili mals being dle, and sweep the ver. 15gently till she find ceremonially it? Ihese ani unclean was deemed 9 And when she among the hath found it, she Jews, this calleth her friends by them the and her neighbours most degradtogether, saying, Re-ed employjoice with me; for I ment. have found the piece ver. 17which I had lost. * i. e. He 10 Likewise, I say ly to reflect began sober unto you, there is on his sad joy in the presence of condition, the angels of God arising from over one sinner that his foolish and sinful repenteth. conduct. 11 And he said, A 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.* 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. 17 And when he came to himself, he said. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger? |