Luke 14:6-16

6 ¹And they could not reply to these things.

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

7 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed ²how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,

8 "When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,

9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give your place to this person,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.

10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, ³so 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 table with you.

11 For ⁴everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

The Parable of the Great Banquet

12 He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give ⁵a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers^[a] or your relatives or rich neighbors, ⁶lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

13 But when you give a feast, ⁷invite ⁸the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid ⁹at ¹⁰the resurrection of the just."

15 When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, ¹¹"Blessed is everyone who will ¹²eat bread in the kingdom of God!"

16 But he said to him, ¹³"A man once ¹⁴gave a great banquet and invited many.