Luk 14:18-20, Eph 5:14 | ESV | STEP | But they all alike began to make excuses . The first said to him , I have bought a field , and I must go out and see it . Please have me excused .

b[Isa. 51:17; 52:1; 60:1; Mal. 4:2]; See Rom. 13:11

Luke 14:18-20

18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ 20 And another said, ^a‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

Ephesians 5:14

14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

^b“Awake, O sleeper,
and ^carise from the dead,
and ^dChrist will shine on you.”