Bible verse
‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
Luke 14:22 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 14.
18 But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.’
19 Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. Please excuse me.’
20 Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’
21 The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
22 ‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
23 So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
24 For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”
25 Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
KJV
And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
ASV
And the servant said, Lord, what thou didst command is done, and yet there is room.
ERV
And the servant said, Lord, what thou didst command is done, and yet there is room.
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