Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Blessed (makariov). Happy, same word in the Beatitudes of Jesus (Matthew 5:3 ff.). This pious platitude whether due to ignorance or hypocrisy was called forth by Christ's words about the resurrection. It was a common figure among the rabbis, the use of a banquet for the bliss of heaven. This man may mean that this is a prerogative of the Pharisees. He assumed complacently that he will be among the number of the blest. Jesus himself uses this same figure of the spiritual banquet for heavenly bliss (Luke 22:29).
Shall eat (fagetai). Future middle from esqiw, defective verb, from stem of the aorist (efagon) like edomai of the old Greek.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Luke 14:16
Luke 22:16
Revelation 19:9
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