Luke 14
1When
2Behold
3Jesus Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
4But He took him, and healed him, and let him go.
5He Which of you, if your son + 14:5 TR reads “donkey” instead of “son” or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’ t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”
6They
7He
8“ When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’ t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honourable than you might be invited by him,
9and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘ Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.
10But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘ Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honoured in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
12He When you make a dinner or a supper, don’ t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbours, or perhaps they might also return the favour, and pay you back.
13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
14and you will be blessed, because they don’ t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
15When
16But A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
17He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘ Come, for everything is ready now.’
18They all as one began to make excuses. “ The first said to him, ‘ I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
19“ Another said, ‘ I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’
20“ Another said, ‘ I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’
21“ That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘ Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’
22“ The servant said, ‘ Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’
23“ The lord said to the servant, ‘ Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
24For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. For many are called, but few are chosen. + 14:24 RP MT includes the last sentence. TR, NU, and FH MT omit: For many are called, but few are chosen.’”
25Now
26“ If anyone comes to me, and doesn’ t disregard + 14:26 or, hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’ t be my disciple.
27Whoever doesn’ t bear his own cross and come after me, can’ t be my disciple.
28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’ t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
29Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’ t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
30saying, ‘ This man began to build and wasn’ t able to finish.’
31Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
33So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’ t renounce all that he has, he can’ t be my disciple.
34“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”