Friend - said to the modest guest only, not the proud one (Luk 14:9) [Bengel].
worship - honor. The whole of this is but a reproduction of Pro 25:6, Pro 25:7. But it was reserved for the matchless Teacher to utter articulately, and apply to the regulation of the minutest features of social life, such great laws of the Kingdom of God, as that of Luk 14:11.