◄ Luke 14:20 ►
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Good News Translation
Another one said, 'I have just gotten married, and for that reason I cannot come.'

New Revised Standard Version
Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’

Contemporary English Version
Still another guest said, "I've just now married, and I can't be there."

New American Bible
And another said, ‘I have just married a woman, and therefore I cannot come.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot come.

Luke 14:26-28 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. . . .

Luke 18:29,30 Who said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath left home or parents or brethren or wife or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, . . .

1 Corinthians 7:29-31,33 This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none: . . .

Context
The Parable of the Banquet
…19And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to try them. I pray thee, hold me excused. 20And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot come. 21And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. 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 feeble and the blind and the lame.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.

Luke 14:19
And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to try them. I pray thee, hold me excused.

Luke 14:21
And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. 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 feeble and the blind and the lame.

1 Corinthians 7:33
But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.

Luke 14:19
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