Luke 14:30
New International Version
saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

New Living Translation
They would say, ‘There’s the person who started that building and couldn’t afford to finish it!’

English Standard Version
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Berean Standard Bible
saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

Berean Literal Bible
saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'

King James Bible
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

New King James Version
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’?

New American Standard Bible
saying, ‘This person began to build, and was not able to finish!’

NASB 1995
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

NASB 1977
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Legacy Standard Bible
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Amplified Bible
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’

Christian Standard Bible
saying, ‘This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
saying, This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

American Standard Version
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And they say, 'This man began to build and could not finish?”

Contemporary English Version
They will say, "You started building, but could not finish the job."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

English Revised Version
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They'll say, 'This person started to build but couldn't finish the job.'

Good News Translation
'You began to build but can't finish the job!' they will say.

International Standard Version
and say, 'This person started a building but couldn't finish it.'

Literal Standard Version
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Majority Standard Bible
saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

New American Bible
and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’

NET Bible
They will say, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'

New Revised Standard Version
saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’

New Heart English Bible
saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish.'

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Weymouth New Testament
saying, 'This man began to build, but could not finish.'

World English Bible
saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Young's Literal Translation
saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Cost of Discipleship
29Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’ 31Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?…

Cross References
Luke 14:29
Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,

Luke 14:31
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?


Treasury of Scripture

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Matthew 7:27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Matthew 27:3-8
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, …

Acts 1:18,19
Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out…

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Luke 14
1. Jesus heals the dropsy on the Sabbath;
7. teaches humility;
12. to feast the poor;
15. under the parable of the great supper,
23. shows how worldly minded men shall be shut out of heaven.
25. Those who will be his disciples, to bear their cross must make their accounts beforehand,
31. lest with shame they revolt from him afterward;
34. and become altogether unprofitable, like salt that has lost its flavor.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
saying,
λέγοντες (legontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

‘This
Οὗτος (Houtos)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

man
ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

could
ἴσχυσεν (ischysen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2480: To have strength, be strong, be in full health and vigor, be able; meton: I prevail. From ischus; to have force.

not
οὐκ (ouk)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

finish
ἐκτελέσαι (ektelesai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 1615: To complete, bring to completion, carry out, perform. From ek and teleo; to complete fully.

what he started
ἤρξατο (ērxato)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 756: To begin. Middle voice of archo; to commence.

to build.’
οἰκοδομεῖν (oikodomein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 3618: From the same as oikodome; to be a house-builder, i.e. Construct or confirm.


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