What Does Luke 14:21 Mean in the King James?
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. 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 maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
A refusal from the expected guests does not close the feast; it turns the house’s welcome toward those whose need is still visible.
THE MEANING
When those expected to come turn away, the welcome moves into the streets and lanes. You are not required to arrive cured or self-sufficient to be brought inside: the poor and physically impaired are summoned as they are. The house fills as those beyond its doors are gathered in.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that visible need or bodily limitation makes you an unsuitable guest is undone: the servant is told to bring these people inside as they are.
THE ROOT
πτωχούς
ptōchous
GROWS FROM
πτώσσω
ptōssō
To crouch, cower, or beg.
The word translated “poor” carries an image of crouching, exposed dependence, not merely a low-income category. They are gathered into the house without first being described as healed or self-sufficient; need is still visible when they are welcomed.
ALSO GROWS
ptōcheia: poverty
πτωχεία
This names the condition of the people the servant gathers; the feast receives them while that condition remains.
ptōcheuō: to become poor
πτωχεύω
This verb carries the same word family into a change of condition, echoing how the table’s welcome reaches people in their need.
THE PATTERN
The invitation moves toward people marked by need, giving them a place in the abundance from which status has kept them distant.
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?THE THREAD
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?The same Greek word translated “poor” appears in both verses. Luke shows the poor being brought into a house; James names them rich in trust and heirs, carrying the same word from visible need into belonging.
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