Luke 4 Luke 14:1–6 Christ healeth the dropsy on the sabbath, and justifieth his doing so. Luke 14:7–11 He recommends humility, Luke 14:12–14 and hospitality toward the poor.

We have before observed the freedom of our Saviour’s converse; sometimes he will dine with publicans, sometimes with Pharisees, becoming all things to all men that he might gain some.

A parable here hath somewhat a different signification from what it more ordinarily hath in the evangelists: it usually signifies a similitude; here it signifies either a wise saying, or a dark saying, by which he intended something further than in the parable he expressed, which he expounds, Luke…

Two or three moral instructions we have in this parable. 1. That the law of Christ justifieth none in any rudeness and incivility. 2. That the disciples of Christ ought to have a regard to their reputation, to do nothing they may be ashamed of. 3.

Many things are delivered in Scripture in the form of an absolute and universal prohibition, which must not be so understood, amongst which this is one instance.

Whether this person had any gross conceptions of the kingdom of God, as a state of external happiness, and sensible satisfactions, I cannot say (though it be the opinion of some valuable interpreters): he might mean no more than, Blessed is he that shall come to heaven, and enjoy the celestial…

We met with the same parable Matt. 22:1–10, where we had the most of what is here, and really other considerable circumstances: See Poole on “Matt. 22:1” and following verses to Matt. 2:10.

We met with much the same Matt. 10:37–38. The sum of the words is, That no man can be a true disciple of Christ, that giveth any friend, or any thing, a preference to Christ in the affections of his heart. Christ must be loved above all.

Our Lord had in the parable of the supper showed what those things are which keep men from embracing the call of the gospel, to wit, their hearts’ too much adherence to and embracing of sensible and sensual things.

See Poole on “Matt. 5:13”. See Poole on “Mark 9:50”, where we met with the most of what we have in these verses. By salt in this place our Saviour seemeth to mean a Christian life and profession.