Lukas 19:14

14 En zijn burgers haatten hem, en zonden hem gezanten na, zeggende: Wij willen niet, dat deze over ons koning zij.

Lukas 19:14 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 19:14

But his citizens hated him
Not those who are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; whose citizenship is in heaven, and who are seeking the better country, and heavenly city; but the Jews, who were his own people and nation, among whom he was born, to whom he was sent and came, and had an undoubted right to the government of them: these hated him with a mortal hatred, as appeared by their traducing his person in the most opprobrious manner; vilifying his doctrine as false; ascribing his miracles to a diabolical influence; and by persecuting his disciples and followers:

and sent a message after him;
this seems to have respect to their outrage against the disciples of Christ, after his ascension; when they not only mocked them, as on the day of Pentecost, but laid hold on them, and put them in hold, even in the common prison, and persecuted them from place to place; and so virtually,

saying, we will not have this man to reign over us:
they would neither receive his Gospel, nor submit to his ordinances; but put them away from them, and judged themselves unworthy of everlasting life: and this is the language of every graceless soul; and is to be observed in their opposition to, and neglect of the truths of Christ, and his divine institutions; which are a yoke they do not care to take upon them, though so mild and easy, and are cords which they cast away from them.

Lukas 19:14 In-Context

12 Hij zeide dan: Een zeker welgeboren man reisde in een ver gelegen land, om voor zichzelven een koninkrijk te ontvangen, en dan weder te keren.

13 En geroepen hebbende zijn tien dienstknechten, gaf hij hun tien ponden, en zeide tot hen: Doet handeling, totdat ik kome.

14 En zijn burgers haatten hem, en zonden hem gezanten na, zeggende: Wij willen niet, dat deze over ons koning zij.

15 En het geschiedde, toen hij wederkwam, als hij het koninkrijk ontvangen had, dat hij zeide, dat die dienstknechten tot hem zouden geroepen worden, wien hij het geld gegeven had; opdat hij weten mocht, wat een iegelijk met handelen gewonnen had.

16 En de eerste kwam, en zeide: Heer, uw pond heeft tien ponden daartoe gewonnen.