What Does Luke 14:22 Mean?
And the servant said, Lord, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.THE KEY
The feast’s welcome is not exhausted when the first invitations are fulfilled; there is still room.
THE MEANING
The command is done, and the open space remains part of the report: fulfillment and unfinished welcome coexist. The verse presents room as something still available, not evidence that the welcome has failed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that the first arrivals exhaust the host’s welcome: the servant reports both that the task is done and that room remains.
THE ROOT
τόπος
topos
GROWS FROM
τοπ-
top-
Place or position; by extension, the space occupied or available.
The Greek word translated “room” is τόπος (topos), a place or space. English “room” can sound like leftover capacity; τόπος lets the verse hold a more concrete image: a place remains available within the house.
ALSO GROWS
topos: Place, position, or available space.
τόπος
The same word names the place prepared in John 14:2, linking remaining room with a place made available for someone.
atopos: Out of place, improper, or unusual.
ἄτοπος
This related word shows the root’s connection to what fits a place; here, the remaining space is part of the host’s welcome.
THE PATTERN
The invitation remains open while there is room for more to come in.
Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters, and whoever has no silver, come, break open and eat. Yes, come, break open wine and milk, without silver and without price.All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never throw out.And the lord said to the servant, Go out to the roads and the hedges, and press them to come in, so that my house may be filled.THE THREAD
In my Father's house are many places to remain. If it were not so, I would have told you, for I go to make ready a place for you.The same Greek word, τόπος (topos, “place” or “room”), names the space still available here and the place prepared in the Father’s house. In both verses, welcome takes the concrete form of a place made available.
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