Luke 14:1-13 ▼

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

2 and behold, there was a certain dropsical man before Him;

3 and Jesus answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

4 And they were silent, and having taken hold of [him], He healed him, and let [him] go;

5 and answering them He said, “Of which of you will a donkey or ox fall into a pit, and he will not immediately draw it up on the Sabbath day?”

6 And they were not able to answer Him again to these things.

7 And He spoke an allegory to those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying to them,

8 “When you may be called by anyone to wedding feasts, you may not recline on the first couch, lest [one] more honorable than you may have been called by him,

9 and he who called you and him having come will say to you, Give to this one [your] place, and then you may begin to occupy the last place with shame.

10 But when you may be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called you may come, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; then you will have glory before those dining with you;

11 because everyone who is exalting himself will be humbled, and he who is humbling himself will be exalted.”

12 And He also said to him who called Him, “When you may make an early meal or a dinner, do not be calling your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they may also call you again, and a repayment may come to you;

13 but when you may make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind,