Luke 14:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ Then all of them, in the same way, began to excuse themselves [from attending]. The first one said to the host, ‘I just bought some land and I need to go out and look it over, so please excuse me [from attending the supper].’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses and to beg off. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of land, and I have to go out and see it; I beg you, have me excused.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a field, and I must needs go out and see it; I pray thee have me excused.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ One by one, they all began to make excuses. The first one told him, ‘I bought a farm and must go and see it. Please excuse me.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And at once they all began to make excuses. The first said to him: 'I bought a farm, and I need to go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out and see it: I pray thee, hold me excused.

Luke 14:18 Cross References

Luke 14:17

When the supper was about ready, he sent his slave out to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is [now] ready.’

Luke 14:19

And another person said, ‘I just bought five teams of oxen and I need to go and try them out, so please excuse me [from attending the supper].’

Luke 18:24

Now Jesus looked at him and said, “How difficult [it is] for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!

Luke 8:14

And those people [represented by the seed] that fell among thorns are the ones who have heard [the word], and as they go about their business, they become choked by worry, by money and by worldly pleasures, and produce no mature crop.

John 1:11

[Then] He came to His own [world, while on earth], but His own [people, the Israelites] did not welcome Him.

John 5:40

But you do not want to come to me [i.e., to believe in me. See verse 38] so that you will have [never ending] life.

Philippians 3:4

However I, myself, have [reasons for such] confidence in the flesh. [But] if any other person has [reasons for placing] confidence in the flesh, I have more [reasons].

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas loved this world and [so] has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Timothy 4:4

They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn their attention to myths.

Hebrews 12:16

and that no one becomes immoral or ungodly, like Esau, who sold his right to the firstborn son’s inheritance for a single meal.