Luke 14:1–14

Jesus Heals the Man with Edema

¹⁴On one occasion when Jesus^m was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely.^{* 2}Just then, in front of him, there was a man who had edema. ³And Jesus asked the experts in the law and Pharisees, “Is it lawful to cure people on the Sabbath or not?”^{* 4}But they were silent. So Jesusⁿ took him and healed him and sent him away. ⁵Then he said to them, “If one of you has a child^o or an ox that has fallen into a well, will you not immediately pull it out on a Sabbath day?”^{* 6}And they could not reply to this.

Humility and Hospitality

⁷When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.^{* 8}“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host,^{* 9}and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give this person your place,’ and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. ¹⁰But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.^{* 11}For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”^*

¹²He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers and sisters or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. ¹³But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.^{* 14}And you will be blessed because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”