Luke 14:1-10 ▼

1 And it came to pass, in His going into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching Him.

2 And behold, there was a certain man with dropsy before Him.

3 And answering, Jesus spoke to the lawyers and to the Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

4 But they were silent. And having taken hold of him, He healed him and let him go.

5 And He said to them, “Which of you? whose son or ox will fall into a well will not also immediately pull him up on the day of the Sabbath?”

6 And they were not able to reply to these things.

7 And He was speaking a parable to those invited, remarking how they were choosing out the first places, saying to them,

8 “When you are invited by anyone to the wedding feasts, do not recline in the first place, lest ever one more honorable than you may have been invited by him.

9 And the one having invited you and him, having come, will say to you, ‘Give to this one the place,’ and then you should begin with shame to take the last place.

10 But when you are invited, having gone, recline in the last place, so that when the one having invited you might come, he will say to you, ‘Friend, come up higher.’ Then glory will be to you before all those reclining with you.