Luke 14:19
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New International Version (©2011)
"Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
Another said, 'I have just bought five pairs of oxen, and I want to try them out. Please excuse me.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Another one said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
"Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm going to try them out. I ask you to excuse me.'

International Standard Version (©2012)
Another said, 'I bought five pairs of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'

NET Bible (©2006)
Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.'

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them; I beg of you, allow me to be excused.'”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Another said, 'I bought five pairs of oxen, and I'm on my way to see how well they plow. Please excuse me.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them: I pray you have me excused.

American King James Version
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray you have me excused.

American Standard Version
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, hold me excused.

Darby Bible Translation
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.

English Revised Version
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

Webster's Bible Translation
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

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

World English Bible
"Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.'

Young's Literal Translation
'And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused:

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:15-24 In this parable observe the free grace and mercy of God shining in the gospel of Christ, which will be food and a feast for the soul of a man that knows its own wants and miseries. All found some pretence to put off their attendance. This reproves the Jewish nation for their neglect of the offers of Christ's grace. It shows also the backwardness there is to close with the gospel call. The want of gratitude in those who slight gospel offers, and the contempt put upon the God of heaven thereby, justly provoke him. The apostles were to turn to the Gentiles, when the Jews refused the offer; and with them the church was filled. The provision made for precious souls in the gospel of Christ, has not been made in vain; for if some reject, others will thankfully accept the offer. The very poor and low in the world, shall be as welcome to Christ as the rich and great; and many times the gospel has the greatest success among those that labour under worldly disadvantages and bodily infirmities. Christ's house shall at last be filled; it will be so when the number of the elect is completed.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen,.... To plough the field with,

and I go to prove them: this also being at, or near evening, was an unsuitable time to go into the field with yokes of oxen to try them, how they would draw the plough, and work in the field; the morning would have been a much more proper time:

I pray thee have me excused; to the master of the feast: this man represents also the carnal and worldly Jews, who preferred temporal things before spiritual.

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The Parable of the Banquet
…18And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray you have me excused. 19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray you have me excused. 20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. …

Luke 14:18 "But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.'
Luke 14:20 "Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.'