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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?" |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then he asked them, "If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?" |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And they had nothing to say. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, 'Give this person your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, "Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God." |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.' |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.' |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.' |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.' |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.' |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"'Sir,' the servant said, 'what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.' |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Then the master told his servant, 'Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.'" |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won't you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30saying, 'This person began to build and wasn't able to finish.' |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won't he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. "Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear." |
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