Luke 14
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| 1 | And it happened while He entered into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread that they were watching Him closely. |
| 2 | Then behold, there was a certain edematous man before Him. |
| 3 | And responding Yahshua spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees saying: "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?" |
| 4 | But they were silent. Then taking him, He cured and released him. |
| 5 | And he said to them "Of which among you should a son or a steer fall into a well, and you should not immediately pull it out on the day of the Sabbath?" |
| 6 | And they were not able to argue against these things. |
| 7 | Then He spoke a parable to those who were invited, noting how they chose the best seats, saying to them: |
| 8 | "When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, you should not sit down in the best seats, lest perhaps one more honorable than you should be invited by him |
| 9 | and coming, he who invited you and him should say to you 'Give place to him'. And then you should begin with shame to occupy the worst place. |
| 10 | Rather, when you are invited, go recline in the worst place, in order that when he who invited you comes he may say to you 'Friend, advance higher'. Then it shall be an honor to you before all of those reclining with you. |
| 11 | Because everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he humbling himself shall be exalted." |
| 12 | Then He also said to he who invited Him: "When you should make a lunch or a dinner, do not call your friends nor your brethren nor your kinsmen nor wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps then they in turn should invite you and it would be a repayment to you. |
| 13 | Rather, when you should hold a reception, call the poor, crippled, lame, blind, |
| 14 | and you would be blessed, because they have nothing to repay you. Indeed it shall be repaid to you in the resurrection of the righteous." |
| 15 | And one of those reclining together hearing these things said to Him "Blessed is whoever should eat bread in the kingdom of Yahweh!" |
| 16 | So He said to him: "A certain man had held a great dinner, and invited many. |
| 17 | And he sent his servant at the hour of the dinner to say to those invited 'Come, because it is already prepared!' |
| 18 | Then they all began at once asking to be excused. The first said to him 'I have bought a field and departing I have need to see it. I ask you, have me be excused.' |
| 19 | And another said 'I have bought five yoke of oxen and I should go to inspect them. I ask, have me be excused.' |
| 20 | Then another said 'I have married a woman and because of this I am not able to come.' |
| 21 | And appearing the servant reported these things to his master. Then being angry the master of the house said to his servant: 'Go out quickly into the avenues and streets of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.' |
| 22 | And the servant said 'Master, that which you have commanded is done, and there is still space.' |
| 23 | And the master said to the servant 'Go out into the roads and parks then compelling to enter in, that my house may be filled. |
| 24 | For I say to you that not one of those men who were invited shall taste of my dinner!'" |
| 25 | And there gathered to Him many crowds, and turning He said to them: |
| 26 | "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother and woman and children and brothers and sisters then also even his own life, he is not able to be My student. |
| 27 | Whoever does not bear his own cross and come behind Me is not able to me My student. |
| 28 | For who from among you desiring to build a tower does not first sit to calculate the expense, whether he should have for completion? |
| 29 | That perhaps laying its foundation and not being able to finish it, all those watching begin to mock him |
| 30 | saying that 'this man began to build and is not able to finish!' |
| 31 | Or what king going to meet another king in battle does not first sit down to deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to encounter he who with twenty thousand is coming against him? |
| 32 | And indeed if not, while he is afar off he shall send an ambassador who requests the things for peace. |
| 33 | So then in this manner all among you who does not dispose of all his own belongings is not able to be My student. |
| 34 | "Therefore good is the salt, but if also the salt has lost its savor, with what shall it be seasoned? |
| 35 | It is well fit for neither the earth nor for the dunghill. They shall cast it outside! He having an ear must hear!" |