Luke 14:1-13 ▼

1 And it came to pass, that he went, on the sabbath day, into the house of one of the chief men of the Pharisees, to eat bread; and they watched him.

2 And behold, there was a man before him, who had the dropsy.

3 And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath-day?

4 But they were silent. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go.

5 And he answered and said to them: Which of you, if his son or his ox should fall into a pit, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath-day?

6 And they were not able to give him an answer to these things.

7 And he spoke a parable to those who had been invited, when he observed how they were choosing the first places at table; and he said to them:

8 When you are invited by any one to a wedding, do not recline in the first place, lest a more honorable man than you may have been invited by him;

9 and he that invited you and him, come and say to you, Give place to this man; and then you shall begin with shame to take the last place.

10 But when you are invited, go and recline in the last place, that when he that invited you shall come, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher. Then you shall have honor in the presence of those who recline with you.

11 For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

12 Then he said also to him that had invited him: "When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you.

13 But when you make a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind;