The Parable of the Feast continues in Luke 14:21-24. The servant came back to the owner's house and reported the excuses to the owner. This did not sit well with the owner and for good reason. No one likes to go to a lot of trouble of putting on a great feast, prepare the house, and send out invitations only to be turned down.
The owner decides that the banquet needs a new set of guests to replace the guests that didn't show up. The servant is instructed to bring in the poor, crippled, blind, and the lame. After bringing in these folks, there were still room in the house for guests. The owner asks the servant to go out into the country to bring in more guests so the house will be full. He asks the servant to compel the people in the country to come into the banquet.
The owner says a concluding statement, "None of the invited will taste my banquet."
Why was it important to the master to have a full house?
I also wondered, why weren't the poor, crippled, blind, and lame invited in the first place?
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