20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; …
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, …
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-24)Here is another discourse of our Saviour’s, in which he spiritualizes the feast he was invited to, which is another way of keeping up good discourse in the midst of common actions. I. The occasion of the discourse was given by one of the guests, who, when Christ was giving rules about feasting, said to him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God (Luke 14:15), which, some tell us,…
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