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He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don`t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
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Hospitality, Not Exclusivity
Scholars unanimously agree that Jesus is not forbidding hospitality towards friends and family. Rather, He is condemning the habit of inviting only those who can return the favor. The command is to expand our guest lists beyond circles of mutual benefit to include those who cannot repay us, such as the poor and marginalized.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Call not your friends, etc. This is not to be understood as commanding us not to entertain at all our relatives and friends; rath…
A dinner or a supper (αριστον η δειπνον). More exactly, a breakfast or a dinner with distinction between them as already shown. Th…
19th Century
Anglican
A dinner or a supper.—The two words were used respectively for the morning and the evening meal—the former, like the Cont…
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Baptist
Our Saviour, you see, keeps to one line of instruction. It was a feast, so he used the feast to teach another lesson.
It is always well, whe…
Having addressed the Pharisee’s guests, Jesus turns to his host and speaks words resembling 6:32–36 (see comments). In view of one’s ultimate rewar…
16th Century
Protestant
When thou makest a dinner. Those who think that this is an absolute condemnation of entertainments given by relatives and friends to each …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said he also to him that invited him As he had given advice and instructions to the guests, so he likewise thou…
Even in the common actions of life, Christ marks what we do, not only in our religious assemblies, but at our tables. We see in many cases that a m…
