Healing on the Sabbath

1. And it happened, as he entered into the house of a certain ruler of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him closely.
2. And behold, a certain man was before him who had dropsy.
3. And answering, Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not.”
4. But they kept silent; and taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.
5. And to them he said, “Which of you, if a son or an ox falls into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out.”
6. And they were not able to answer him regarding these things.

Teaching on Humility

7. And he spoke a parable to those who had been invited, when he noticed how they were choosing the first places, saying to them:
8. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline in the first place, lest a more honourable man than you may have been invited by him.”
9. “And the one who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the last place.”
10. “But when you are invited, go and recline in the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher,’ then you will have glory before all those reclining with you.”
11. “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Invite the Poor

12. And he also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or rich neighbours, lest they also invite you in return and it becomes a repayment.”
13. “But when you make a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind.”
14. “And you will be blessed, because they have nothing to repay you; for you will be repaid in the resurrection of the just.”

Parable of the Great Banquet

15. And hearing this, one of those reclining with him said to him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.”
16. But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper and invited many.”
17. “And he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’”
18. “And all together they began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out to see it; I ask you, have me excused.’”
19. “And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them; I ask you, have me excused.’”
20. “And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I am not able to come.’”
21. “And the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, 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.’”
22. “And the servant said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’”
23. “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.’”
24. “For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste of my supper.”

The Cost of Discipleship

25. And great crowds were going with him, and turning, he said to them:
26. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.”
27. “Whoever does not bear his cross and come after me is not able to be my disciple.”
28. “For which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it.”
29. “Lest, having laid the foundation and being not able to finish, all who see begin to mock him,”
30. “Saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’”
31. “Or what king, going to meet another king in war, does not first sit down to deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one coming against him with twenty thousand.”
32. “And if not, while he is still far off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.”
33. “So therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all that he possesses is not able to be my disciple.”

Salt Without Savour

34. “Therefore salt is good; but if even the salt becomes tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned.”
35. “It is fit neither for the soil nor for the dung-heap; they throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”