Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
When he went (en tw elqein auton). Luke's favourite temporal clause = "on the going as to him."
That (kai). Another common Lukan idiom, kai= oti after egeneto, like Hebrew wav.
They (autoi). Emphatic.
Were watching (hsan parathroumenoi). Periphrastic imperfect middle. Note force of autoi, middle voice, and para-. They were themselves watching on the side (on the sly), watching insidiously, with evil intent as in Mark 3:2 (active).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 14:1:
Luke 7:36
Luke 14:3
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