Luke 14:34 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? ”

Luke 14:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the Matthew 5:13 note; Mark 9:49-50 notes. Salt is good - It is useful. It is good to preserve life and health, and to keep from putrefaction. His savour - Its saltness. It becomes...
Luke 14:34 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(7) Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? (7) The disciples of Christ must be wise, both for themselves and for others: otherwise they become the most...
Luke 14:34 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Discipleship and its Cost. The passage is a reminder that, despite the universality of the Kingdom, the number of its true subjects is small. To the crowd that is following Him Jesus applies a stri...
Luke 14:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Salt , &c. See note on Matthew 5:13 . if , &c.. contingent assumption. App-118. lost his savour . become tasteless. Compare Matthew 5:13 . wherewith . with (Greek. en App-104.) wha...
Luke 14:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Salt is good - See on Matthew 5:13 (note), and Mark 9:50 (note). On the subject referred to this place from...
Luke 14:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour ... He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. See the not...
Luke 14:34 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Dropsical Man. The Great Supper. Divers Sayings and Parables 1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk).
Luke 14:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Salt is good. — The words are all but identical with those of Matthew 5:13 , and resemble those of Mark 9:50 . (See Notes on those passages.) They appear now, however, in a very different context...
Luke 14:34 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Cost of Discipleship Luke 14:25-35 Here we have our Lord's use of the winnowing-fan. Amid the teeming crowds He knew that there were many light and superficial souls who had not realized th...
Luke 14:34 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nothing escaped the notice of Jesus. He saw the guests in the house, and their method of procedure in seeking the chief seats. As He watched, He enunciated two great truths of social application. Fir...
Luke 14:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficien...
Luke 14:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Salt is good ,.... Matthew 5:13 , Mark 10:50 .
Luke 14:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Ver. 34. Salt is good ] This was a sentence much in our Saviour's mouth, Matthew 5:13 ; Mark 9:50 ; and is...
Luke 14:34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Salt is good If you are not my disciples indeed, your outward profession will be very insignificant: for, though salt in general is a good thing, and my servants, as I formerly intimated (see on M...
Luke 14:34 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

EATING IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE (vs.1-14) This chapter shows the heart of God in seeking man, yet also man in thorough contrast and opposition to God. One of the chief Pharisees invited the Lord...
Luke 14:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Necessity of Self-denial. 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26 If any man com...
Luke 14:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 34,35. See Poole on " Matthew 5:13 " . See Poole on " Mark 9:50 " , where we met with the most of what we have in these verses. By salt in this place our Saviour seemeth to mean a Christian...
Luke 14:34 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Call To Discipleship (14:25-35). Luke closes this section off as he opened it by showing Jesus as challenging His disciples and His would be disciples to consider what was involved in what the...
Luke 14:34 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Luke 14:25 . There went with Him .— I.e. , journeyed with Him; many, if not most, of them being on their way to one of the feasts in Jerusalem. The multitudes were attracted by Ch...
Luke 14:34 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Luke 14:34 I. What is it in the spiritual life which answers to the influence of salt in the natural life? I answer: A certain deep, secret power of the Spirit of God, acting generally through the...
Luke 14:34 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 14:25 . And there went great multitudes with him: During at least a part of his earthly ministry, Christ was very popular. The people crowded to his feet, and they were willing to make him a...
Luke 14:34 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 14:3 . Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day. When customs are good, let us keep them; but when they are burthensome and inconsistent, the Saviour refused submission to the traditions of me...
Luke 14:34 - The Biblical Illustrator

Salt is good Salt that is genuine, and salt that is saltless Among the substances that enter into the composition of this globe of earth, salt is a very important one, being of essential use in...
Luke 14:34 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Luke 14:1-42 The Pharisee ' s feast on a sabbath day. The healing of the sick with dropsy. Luke 14:1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief...
Luke 14:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Salt is good; but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith. shall it be seasoned?
Luke 14:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Colossians 4:6 ; Hebrews 2:4-8 ; Mark 9:49 ; Mark 9:50 ; Matthew 5:13
Luke 14:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Salt — Every Christian, but more eminently every minister. Matthew 5:13 ; Mark 9:50 .

Luke 14:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Luke 14:34 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Luke 14:34 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 14:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Luke 14:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Luke 14:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Luke 14:34 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 14:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Luke 14:34 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 14:34 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Luke 14:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Luke 14:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Luke 14:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Luke 14:34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 14:34 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 14:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Luke 14:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Luke 14:34 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 14:34 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Luke 14:34 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Luke 14:34 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 14:34 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 14:34 - The Biblical Illustrator

Luke 14:34 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Luke 14:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Luke 14:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 14:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes