1 It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of
the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.
2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. 3 Jesus,
answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath?”
4 But they were silent.
He took him, and healed him, and let him go. 5 He answered them,
“Which of you, if your son*1
or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath
day?”
6 They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.
7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they
chose the best seats, and said to them, 8 “When you are invited by
anyone to a marriage feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone
more honorable than you might be invited by him, 9 and he who invited both
of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would
begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited,
go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may
tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence
of all who sit at the table with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself
will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
12 He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a
dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your
kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and
pay you back. 13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the
lame, or the blind; 14 and you will be blessed, because they don’t have
the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the
righteous.”
15 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he
said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!”
16 But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he
invited many people. 17 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell
those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ 18 They all
as one began to make excuses.
“The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it.
Please have me excused.’
19 “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them
out. Please have me excused.’
20 “Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’
21 “That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of
the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets
and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’
22 “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is
still room.’
23 “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges,
and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you
that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”
25 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t hate his own father, mother,
wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t
be my disciple. 27 Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me,
can’t be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower,
doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to
complete it? 29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able
to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man
began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, as he goes to
encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether
he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty
thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an
envoy, and asks for conditions of peace. 33 So therefore whoever of you
who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple. 34 Salt is
good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown
out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
1 TR reads “donkey” instead of “son”
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