Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
I cannot come (ou dunamai elqein). Less polite than the others but a more plausible pretence if he wanted to make it so. The law excused a newly married man from war (Deuteronomy 24:5), "but not from social courtesy" (Ragg). The new wife would probably have been glad to go with him to the feast if asked. But see I Corinthians 7:33. There is here as often a sharp difference between the excuses offered and the reasons behind them.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 14:20:
Matthew 22:1
Luke 14:16
Luke 14:26
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