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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links and a discussion forum 2012 October 18
Parable of the Great Supper (1900)
Eugene Burnand (1850-1921)
Realism Style
The Winterthur Museum of Art, Winterthur, Switzerland
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Explanation: On a Sabbath day during a meal in a Pharisee's house Jesus healed a man with dropsy. He then reminded his critics that they would immediately give relief to one of their animals that had fallen into a well, even if it happened on a Sabbath day. To amplify the implications of this incident, he then gave them three lessons on their attitude toward one another. The first was a lesson in humility: take the lower seat at a feast, not the higher (14:7-11). The second was a lesson on generosity to the poor: invite them to your feasts, not those who can repay you (14:12-14). And the third was a lesson on respecting God and his Kingdom: at his heavenly banquet God replaces those who despise his kindness with those who are spiritually poor and needy and willing to come to his banquet (14:15-24).
Blended Gospel Series
This Harmony Uses the King James Authorized Version of 1769 (with Archaisms Removed)
For its Literary Qualities and Extensive Historical Use in Art and Literature
Section 94
Luke 14:1-24
Luke 14:1-24 1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
3 And Jesus answering spoke unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
8 When you are bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than you be bidden of him;
9 And he that bade you and him come and say to you, Give this man place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest room.
10 But when you are bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade you comes, he may say unto you, Friend, go up higher: then shalt you have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with you.
11 For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbours; lest they also bid you again, and a recompence be made you.
13 But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
14 And you shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense you: for you shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
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 you have me excused.
19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray you have me excused.
20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
21 So that servant came, and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as you have commanded, and yet there is room.
13 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
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