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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 14:21 - 14:21
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came, and showed, etc. - saying as in Isa 53:1. “It is the part of ministers to report to the Lord in their prayers the compliance or refusal of their hearers” [Bengel].
angry - in one sense a gracious word, showing how sincere he was in issuing his invitations (Eze 33:11). But it is the slight put upon him, the sense of which is intended to be marked by this word.
streets and lanes - historically, those within the same pale of “the city” of God as the former class, but the despised and outcasts of the nation, the “publicans and sinners” [Trench]; generally, all similar classes, usually overlooked in the first provision for supplying the means of grace to a community, half heathen in the midst of revealed light, and in every sense miserable.