tcent - Luke:14:1-14

tcent@Luke:14:1 @ One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they watched him.

tcent@Luke:14:2 @ And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.

tcent@Luke:14:3 @ And Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, »Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?«

tcent@Luke:14:4 @ But they kept silent. And he took him and healed him, and let him go.

tcent@Luke:14:5 @ Then he said to them, »Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?«

tcent@Luke:14:6 @ And they could not reply to this.

tcent@Luke:14:7 @ So he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noted how they chose the places of honor, saying to them:

tcent@Luke:14:8 @ »When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him;

tcent@Luke:14:9 @ and he who invited you both will come and say to you, Give place to this man, and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.

tcent@Luke:14:10 @ But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, Friend, go up higher. Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.

tcent@Luke:14:11 @ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.«

tcent@Luke:14:12 @ Then he also said to the one who invited him, »When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers, your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

tcent@Luke:14:13 @ But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,

tcent@Luke:14:14 @ and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.«