Luke 14:1-14

Healing of a Man on the Sabbath

1One Sabbath, awhen he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were bwatching him carefully. 2And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 3And Jesus responded to cthe lawyers and Pharisees, saying, d“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” 4But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. 5And he said to them, eWhich of you, having a son
Some manuscripts  a donkey
or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”
6 gAnd they could not reply to these things.

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

7Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed hhow they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, 9and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, iso that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. 11For jeveryone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

The Parable of the Great Banquet

12He said also to the man who had invited him, When you give ka dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers
Or  your brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
or your relatives or rich neighbors, mlest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.
13But when you give a feast, ninvite othe poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid pat qthe resurrection of the just.”

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