Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Friend—said to the modest guest only, not the proud one (Luke 14:9) [BENGEL].
worship—honor. The whole of this is but a reproduction of Proverbs 25:6-7. But it was reserved for the matchless Teacher to utter articulately, and apply to the regulation of the minutest features of social life, such great laws of the Kingdom of God, as that of Luke 14:11.
a parable—showing that His design was not so much to inculcate mere politeness or good manners, as underneath this to teach something deeper (Luke 14:11).
chief rooms—principal seats, in the middle part of the couch on which they reclined at meals, esteemed the most honorable.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 14:10:
Proverbs 25:6-7
Mark 10:40
Luke 11:43
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