The Son of Man Who is Eating and Drinking - Luke 7:34

Luke the beloved physician wrote how the Lord Jesus asked, “Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say, He has a devil”, and in chapter seven and verse thirty-four of his book Luke shared how Jesus says, “The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and you say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber” where we read:

The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and you say,

Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

The verse reads, “The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and you say, ...” Luke began with the words, “The Son of man” or “God's Son Jesus who was born of His mother Mary” “is come eating” which means “has arose and appeared consuming and devouring food” “and drinking” or “and imbibing drink from the vine”; “and you say” which means “and the religious leaders who did not believe in Jesus utter, declare and proclaim” the following words. Luke shared how Jesus said He came both “eating and drinking” and the “religious leaders” proclaimed the following words.

The verse goes on to say, “... Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!” Luke continues with the words, “behold” which means “lo, look and consider” “a gluttonous man” or “a voracious glutton and eater”, “and a winebibber” which means “and a wino, tippler or person given to wine”, “a friend” or “an associate or companion of familiarity” “of publicans and sinners” which refers to “with tax collectors or gatherers and people who are especially wicked and stained with certain vices or crimes”. Luke shared how Jesus said the religious leaders spoke against Him as being one who not only “ate and drank” but was as a “glutton” and a “wino” who associated with “tax collectors” and wicked people.

When we consider Luke's words in this verse, we see how Jesus told the religious leaders how they judged Him on the other extreme of His example. They already judged John the Baptist as having a “devil” even though John did not “eat, drink or associate” with tax collectors and sinners, and now they were judging Jesus because He did. There was no satisfying these hard hearted men. They were blind to the truth concerning John the Baptist being the fore-runner of the Messiah, and they misjudged Jesus who was the Messiah sent from God. People who do not want to believe in Jesus fulfill their own destiny with God, however, those who understand who Jesus is will align their lives with Jesus as their personal “Savior and Lord”.

Next time Luke shares how Jesus says, “wisdom is justified of all her children”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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