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Luke - ch 14 v 1 - 20
- And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to eat bread, that they watched him.
- And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy.
- And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
- But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him, and sent him away.
- And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out, on the sabbath day?
- And they could not answer him to these things.
- And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:
- When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him:
- And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place: and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.
- But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited thee, cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee.
- Because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.
- And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee.
- But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind;
- And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.
- When one of them that sat at table with him, had heard these things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
- But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper, and invited many.
- And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them that were invited, that they should come, for now all things are ready.
- And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out and see it: I pray thee, hold me excused.
- And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, hold me excused.
- And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
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