mnt - Luke:14:1-14

mnt@Luke:14:1 @ It happened on the Sabbath Day when he went into the house of a certain ruler among Pharisees to take a meal, that they were watching him.

mnt@Luke:14:2 @ And lo! there was in front of him a man who had dropsy.

mnt@Luke:14:3 @ So Jesus questioned the lawyers and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day or not?"

mnt@Luke:14:4 @ They kept silent. Then Jesus took him and healed him and let him go.

mnt@Luke:14:5 @ And to them he said, "Which of you when an ox or ass has fallen into a well, will at once pull him out on the Sabbath Day?"

mnt@Luke:14:6 @ They could not answer this.

mnt@Luke:14:7 @ He told a parable to the guests when he noticed how they began choosing the best seats. He said to them.

mnt@Luke:14:8 @ "When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,

mnt@Luke:14:9 @ "Give place to this man, and then with mortification you proceed to take the lowest place.

mnt@Luke:14:10 @ "But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, My friend, come up higher. Then you will be honored before the other guest.

mnt@Luke:14:11 @ "For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

mnt@Luke:14:12 @ Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.

mnt@Luke:14:13 @ "But when you make a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

mnt@Luke:14:14 @ "Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."