Luke 14:20

20 "Another said, "`I am just married. It is impossible for me to come.'

Luke 14:20 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 14:20

And another said, I have married a wife,
&c.] And his pretence might be, that he had his own marriage feast, and friends to attend, nor could he leave his wife directly; but his circumstances were such as made an invitation to a feast the more agreeable, and he might have brought his wife and friends along with him, who would have been as welcome as himself:

and therefore I cannot come.
The Arabic version renders it, "therefore I will not go": this man is more rustic and rude than the former; he does not so much as desire to be excused; and represents such who are fond of their sensual lusts and pleasures, and are resolved to indulge them, and will not be taken off from them by any means whatever.

Luke 14:20 In-Context

18 "But they all without exception began to excuse themselves. The first told him, "`I have purchased a piece of land, and must of necessity go and look at it. Pray hold me excused.'

19 "A second pleaded, "`I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am on my way to try them. Pray hold me excused.'

20 "Another said, "`I am just married. It is impossible for me to come.'

21 "So the servant came and brought these answers to his master, and they stirred his anger. "`Go out quickly,' he said, `into the streets of the city--the wide ones and the narrow. You will see poor men, and crippled, blind, lame: fetch them all in here.'

22 "Soon the servant reported the result, saying, "`Sir, what you ordered is done, and there is room still.'