Luke 14:20

Cannot come. The man who made this third excuse appears to have been even more rude than the others. Whereas they had, with a show of courtesy, asked to be excused, he simply informed the servant flatly, “I cannot come.” Some feel that this man was probably basing his refusal on the fact that certain exemptions from some of the ordinary military and civil duties were accorded a man during the first year of his married life (see on Deuteronomy 24:5). Hence he said, “I cannot come.” But this law did not exempt him from normal social relationship, and any endeavor to feign that it did so would be but hollow pretense. This man’s excuse was in reality little or no better than those of the first two men.