Luke 14

And it happened that, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were also watching him closely.

And behold, a certain man who was edematous {was} before him.

And answering, Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” \*

But they kept silent. And, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.

And he said to them, “Of which of you will a son or an ox fall into a well, and he will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

And they were not able to give an answer to these things. \*

Then he was speaking a parable to the ones that had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the first places, {and} saying to them,

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline to eat in the first place, lest a more honorable than you may have been invited by him,

and {when} the one having invited you and him arrives, he will say to you, ‘Give your place to this one,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the last place. \*

But when you are invited, go {and} recline to eat in the last place, so that when the one that had invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, come up higher.’ Then there will be glory to you before all the ones reclining to eat with you.

For everyone exalting himself will be humbled, and the one humbling himself will be exalted.” \*

Then he also said to the one that had invited him, “When you make a lunch or a supper, do not invite your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and repayment happen to you. \*

But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, {and the} blind,

and you will be blessed, because they do not have to repay you. For it will be repaid to you in the resurrection of the righteous.” \*

And one of the ones reclining to eat, having heard these things, said to him, “Blessed {is} whoever will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”

But he said to him, “A certain man made a large supper and invited many.

And he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to the ones that had been invited, ‘Come, because it is now ready.’ \*

And they all from one began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I have need to go out to see it. I ask you, have me excused.’

And another said, ‘I have bought five pairs of oxen, and I am going to try them out. I ask you, have me excused.’

And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and because of this I am not able to come.’ \*

And the servant came {and} reported these things to his master. Then becoming angry, the master of the house said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

And the servant said, ‘Master, what you commanded has happened, and there is still room.’ \*

And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the roads and hedges and compel {them} to come in, so that my house may be filled.

For I say to you that none of those men that had been invited will taste of my supper.’” \*

And large crowds were journeying with him, and he turned {and} said to them,

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters and also even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.

Whoever does not carry his cross and come after me is not able to be my disciple. \*

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down {and} calculate the cost—whether he has for completion?

Otherwise, he having laid a foundation and not being able to finish, all who see it will begin to mock him,

saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ \*

Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, will not sit down {and} first determine whether he is able with 10,000 to meet the one coming against him with 20,000?

But if not, while he is still far away, sending a delegation, he asks the things for peace.

In the same way, then, every one of you who does not renounce all the {things that} he himself possesses is not able to be my disciple. \*

Salt then {is} good, but if the salt indeed is made tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?

It is useful neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. They throw it outside. The one having ears to hear, let him hear.” \*