Luke 14
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Jesus Eats at a Pharisee’s House
1One Sabbath day, Jesus went to eat in the house of a well-known Pharisee. While he was there, he was being carefully watched. 2In front of him there was a man whose body was badly swollen. 3Jesus turned to the Pharisees and the experts in the law and asked them, “Is it breaking the Law to heal on the Sabbath day?” 4But they didn’t say anything. So Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him on his way.
5He asked them another question. He said, “If you had a child or an ox that fell into a well on the Sabbath day, wouldn’t you pull them out right away?” 6And they had nothing to say.
7Jesus noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, so he told them a story. 8He said, “Suppose someone invites you to a wedding feast. Don’t take the place of honor, because a person more important than you may have been invited. 9If so, the host who invited both of you will come to you and say, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then you’ll be humiliated, and you’ll have to take the least important place. 10So when you’re invited somewhere, take the lowest place. Your host will come over to you and say, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you’ll be honored in front of all the other guests. 11All who lift themselves up will be humbled, but those who humble themselves will be lifted up.”
12Then Jesus spoke to his host. “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors. If you do, they may invite you to eat with them in return and you will be paid back. 13When you give a banquet, invite the poor and those who can’t see or walk. 14Then you will be blessed. Your guests won’t be able to pay you back, but you will be paid back when those who are right with God are raised from the dead.”
The Story of the Great Banquet
15One of the people at the table with him heard these things and he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in God’s kingdom.”
16Jesus responded, “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and he invited many guests. 17When the day of the banquet arrived, he sent a servant to get those he had invited. The servant told them, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’
18“But they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I’ve just bought a field and I have to go see it. Please excuse me.’
19“Another one said, ‘I’ve just bought five pairs of oxen and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’
20“Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’
21“The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Quick! Go into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor and those who can’t see or walk.’
22“The servant came back and said, ‘Sir, what you ordered has been done, but there’s still room.’
23“Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and make people come in. I want my house to be full. But 24I tell you, not one of those people I first invited will get a taste of my banquet.’ ”
The Cost of Being a Disciple
25Large crowds were traveling with Jesus. He turned to them and said, 26“Anyone who comes to me but doesn’t love me more than their father and mother, their wife and children, their brothers and sisters, and even their own life can’t be my disciple. 27Whoever doesn’t carry their cross and follow me can’t be my disciple.
28“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you sit down first and figure out how much it will cost? Then you’ll know whether you have enough money to finish it. 29If you start building but aren’t able to finish, everyone who sees it will laugh at you. 30They’ll say, ‘This person started to build but wasn’t able to finish.’
31“Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and think about whether he can win if he only has 10,000 soldiers while the other king has 20,000? 32If he decides he can’t win, he’ll send messengers to make a peace treaty with the other king while he’s still far away. 33You have to ask the same kind of question, because if you don’t give up everything you have, you can’t be my disciple.
34“Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? 35It’s not good for fertilizer, and you can’t even put it in the compost. It has to be thrown out.
“Whoever can understand should take this to heart.”
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Luke 14
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Lk 7.36; 11.37; Mk 3.2. One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. 2And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 3#Mt 12.10; Mk 3.4; Lk 6.9. And Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?” 4But they were silent. Then he took him and healed him, and let him go. 5#Mt 12.11; Lk 13.15. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son#14.5 Other ancient authorities read an ass or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a sabbath day?” 6And they could not reply to this.
7Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8#Prov 25.6-7; Lk 11.43; 20.46. “When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; 9and 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. 10But 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. 11#Mt 23.12; Lk 18.14; Mt 18.4; 1 Pet 5.6. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Jas 2.2-4. He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid. 13#Lk 14.21. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, 14and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
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Rev 19.9. When one of those who sat at table with him heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!” 16#Mt 22.1-10. But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many; 17and at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for all is now ready.’ 18But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.’ 19And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.’ 20#Deut 24.5; 1 Cor 7.33. And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21#Lk 14.13. So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.’ 22And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ 23And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I tell you,#14.24 The Greek word for you here is plural none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’ ”
25Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26#Mt 10.37-38. “If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27#Mt 16.24; Mk 8.34; Lk 9.23. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’ 31Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace. 33#Lk 18.29-30; Phil 3.7. So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
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Mt 5.13; Mk 9.49-50; Mt 11.15. “Salt is good; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? 35It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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