Luke 14:1–14

Jesus Heals on the Sabbath

¹It happened that when He went into the house of one of the ¹leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, ^athey were watching Him closely.

²And ¹there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.

³And Jesus answered and spoke to the ^1alawyers and Pharisees, saying, “^bIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”

⁴But they kept silent. And He took hold of him and healed him, and sent him away.

⁵And He said to them, “^1aWhich one of you will have a son or an ox fall into a well, and will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”

^6aAnd they could make no reply to this.

Parable of the Guests

⁷And He began speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how ^athey had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them,

⁸“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, ^ado not ¹take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,

⁹and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then ^ain disgrace you ¹proceed to occupy the last place.

¹⁰“But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, ^amove up higher’; then you will have honor in the sight of all who ¹are at the table with you.

¹¹“^aFor everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹²And He also went on 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 rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and that will be your repayment.

¹³“But when you give a ¹reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

¹⁴and you will be blessed, since they ¹do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at ^athe resurrection of the righteous.”