Luke 14

The Healing of a Man Suffering from Dropsy

1 And it occurred that, when He came to the house of a certain one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching Him closely. 2 And behold, there was a certain man in front of Him, suffering from dropsy. 3 And in reply, Jesus said to the legal experts and Pharisees, saying, “Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” 4 But they kept quiet. And He took hold of him and healed him, and sent him away. 5 And to them, He said, “Which of you, when your son or your ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull it out, even on the day of the Sabbath?” 6 And they were not able to give a reply to these things.

The Parable of the Guests and a Host at a Wedding Feast

7 Now He began to speak a parable to those who had been invited when He noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honour, saying to them, 8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, * do not recline at the table in the place of honour, lest someone more honourable in rank than you has been invited by him, 9 and the one who invited you and him will come and say to you, ‘Give the place to this one,’ and then with shame you will proceed to take the last place. * 10 On the contrary, when you are invited, go and recline in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then it will be an honour to you before all those who are reclining at the table with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

12 Then He also began to say to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or wealthy neighbours, lest they also invite you in return, and there would be a repayment to you. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 then you will be blessed, because they do not have the means to repay you, for it will be repaid to you at the resurrection of the righteous.”

The Parable of the Great Dinner

Matt. 22:1-10

15 And when one of those who reclined at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”

16 But He said to him, “A certain man was giving a great dinner and invited many. 17 And he sent his servant at the hour of the dinner to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for it is now ready.’ 18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field, and I must go out to see it. I beg you, have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. I beg you, have me excused.’ 20 And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and because of this, I cannot come.’ 21 So the servant came and reported these things to his master. And the master * of the house was angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ 22 Then the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges, and urge them to come in, so that my house may be filled. 24 For I say to you that none of those people who were invited will taste my dinner.’ ” *

The Cost of Discipleship

Matt. 10:37-38

25 Now large crowds were journeying together with Him, and He turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and in addition, even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me is not able to be My disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to construct a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the expense whether he has sufficient means to carry through to completion. 29 Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation and is not able to complete it, all those who see it will begin to deride him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to complete it. 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 But if not, while he is still far off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all that he himself possesses cannot be My disciple.

The Uselessness of Salt Without Taste

Matt. 5:13; Mk. 9:50

34 “Therefore, salt is good, but if salt becomes bland, by what will it be made seasoned? 35 It is neither suitable for use in the soil nor for the manure pile; they discard it. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Notes

8 Greek wedding feasts

9 Or least important place. So also v. 10

21 Or owner

24 Some ancient manuscripts insert the expression For many are called, but few are chosen at this point , harmonising it with a parallel reading in Matt. 22:4

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