LUK 14
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The Healing of a Man Suffering from Dropsy
1 One Sabbath day, when Jesus went to eat a meal at the house of a prominent Pharisee, they were watching Him closely with hostile intent.
2 Right there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
3 Jesus asked the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"
4 But they remained silent, refusing to answer. Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him on his way.
5 Then Jesus asked them, "Which of you, if your son or ox falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"
6 They could give no answer to refute these arguments.
The Parable of the Guests and a Host at a Wedding Feast
7 When Jesus noticed how the invited guests were choosing the places of honour for themselves, He told them this parable:
8 "When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honour, lest someone more honoured than you has been invited by the host.
9 Then the one who invited both of you will come and say to you, 'Give this person your place.' And you will begin with shame to take the lowest and least honourable place.
10 Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honoured in the presence of all the other guests.
11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
12 Then Jesus addressed His host, saying, "When you host a luncheon or dinner, do not call your friends, your siblings, your relatives, or your prosperous neighbours. If you do this, they may reciprocate by inviting you, and in this way you will receive your recompense.
13 Rather, when you host a feast, extend invitations to the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
14 Then you will experience blessing, because they lack the means to repay you. You will receive your reward at the resurrection of the righteous."
The Parable of the Great Dinner
Matt. 22:1-10
15 When one of those sharing the meal with Jesus heard these words, he declared to Him, "How blessed is the person who will share a meal in God's kingdom!"
16 Jesus replied to him with a parable: "A certain man was hosting a magnificent banquet and sent out invitations to many people.
17 At the appointed hour for the dinner, he despatched his servant to inform those who had received invitations, 'Come now, because everything stands prepared.'
18 But one after another they all started offering excuses. The first declared to him, 'I have purchased a piece of land, and it is necessary for me to go examine it. I ask you to excuse me.'
19 And another stated, 'I have purchased five pairs of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to excuse me.'
20 Yet another responded, 'I have just married a wife, and for this reason I am unable to come.'
21 The servant returned and conveyed all these responses to his master. Then the master of the house grew angry and commanded his servant, 'Go out at once into the city's streets and narrow lanes and bring here the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'
22 The servant reported, 'Master, what you commanded has been accomplished, and still there is available space.'
23 Then the master instructed the servant, 'Go out to the highways and along the hedgerows and urge people to enter, so that my house may be filled.
24 I declare to you, not one of those individuals who received invitations will have a taste of my banquet.'"
The Cost of Discipleship
Matt. 10:37-38
25 Great crowds were journeying alongside Jesus. Turning towards them, He declared,
26 "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and indeed even his own life, he is unable to be My disciple.
27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me is unable to be My disciple.
28 For which among you, intending to construct a tower, does not first sit down and compute the expense to determine whether he has sufficient resources to finish it?
29 Otherwise, having laid the foundation and proving unable to complete the project, all who observe will start ridiculing him,
30 declaring, 'This person initiated construction but lacked the ability to bring it to completion.'
31 Or what king, marching out to engage another king in battle, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he has the capability with ten thousand soldiers to confront the one advancing against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if he cannot, while the other king is still at a distance, he despatches an embassy and requests conditions for peace.
33 So in the same manner, any among you who does not renounce all his possessions is unable to be My disciple."
The Uselessness of Salt Without Taste
Matt. 5:13; Mk. 9:50
34 Salt is excellent and beneficial, but if the salt becomes tasteless, by what means can its flavour be restored?
35 It proves suitable neither for the ground nor for the compost heap. People discard it. Let the one who has ears for hearing, hear."
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Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
