Luke 14:22 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) And the slave said, ‘Master, I did what you ordered me to do, and still there is room [at the dinner table].’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the servant [returning] said, Sir, what you have commanded me to do has been done, and yet there is room. American Standard Version (1901) And the servant said, Lord, what thou didst command is done, and yet there is room. Common English Bible The servant said, ‘Master, your instructions have been followed and there is still room.’ Catholic Public Domain Version And the servant said: 'It has been done, just as you ordered, lord, and there is still room.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. |
Then the slave returned and told his master about these things. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring people who are poor, and handicapped, and blind and crippled in here [i.e., to the supper].’
Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and along the brushy trails and urge people to attend [the supper] so that my house will be full [of guests].’
There are many rooms in my Father’s house, and I am going to prepare a place for each one you [in them]. I would not have told you this if it were not so.
This favor of preaching the unfathomable riches of Christ to the Gentiles was given to me [even though] I am the least significant of all saints [i.e., God’s holy people].
And He is the One who provides a “covering over” [thereby the forgiveness] of our sins [See Heb. 2:17; Dan. 9:24; II Chron. 29:24], and not of ours [who are already Christians] only, but also of the sins of the people of the whole world.