NAS - Luke 14:1-14

14 Jesus Heals on the Sabbath

¹It happened that when He went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching Him closely. ²And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy. ³And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is 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, "Which 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?"⁶And 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 they 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, do not take 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 in disgrace you proceed 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, move up higher'; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you.¹¹"For 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 reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,¹⁴and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."