And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
Parallel translations
- WEB “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’
- BSB ‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
- NKJV And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’
- NASB And later the slave said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’
- NLT After the servant had done this, he reported, ‘There is still room for more.’
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Quick answer
The servant reports the command done, yet room remains. God's gracious feast has abundant space for more.
Overview
Even after gathering the city's poor, the banquet hall is not full. The remaining room shows the wideness of God's saving invitation. The gospel's reach is not exhausted by the first responders but extends further still.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- John 14:2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
- Ps 130:7Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
- Eph 3:8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
- Rev 7:4–9And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
- 1 Tim 2:5–6For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
- Col 2:9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
- Ps 103:6The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
- 1 Jn 2:2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
- Acts 1:1–9The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
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Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.
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