Luke 14:1-14

Healing of a Man on the Sabbath

1 One Sabbath, ¹when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were ²watching him carefully.

2 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.

3 And Jesus responded to ³the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ⁴"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"

4 But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away.

5 And he said to them, ⁵"Which of you, having a son^[a] or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"

6 ⁶And 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 ⁷how 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, ⁸so 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 ⁹everyone 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 ¹⁰a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers^[b] or your relatives or rich neighbors, ¹¹lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

13 But when you give a feast, ¹²invite ¹³the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid ¹⁴at ¹⁵the resurrection of the just."

Cross References

• 1. Luke 7:36; Luke 11:37
• 2. Luke 20:20; Mark 3:2
• 3. See Luke 7:30
• 4. Luke 13:14; Matthew 12:10
• 5. Luke 13:15; [Deuteronomy 22:4; Matthew 12:11]
• 6. [Matthew 22:46]
• 7. See Luke 11:43
• 8. Proverbs 25:6, 7
• 9. Luke 18:14; [Proverbs 29:23; Ezekiel 21:26; Matthew 18:4; James 4:6, 10; 1 Peter 5:5, 6]
• 10. John 21:12(Gk.)
• 11. [Luke 6:34]
• 12. [Nehemiah 8:10, 12; Esther 9:22]
• 13. ver. 21
• 14. 1 Corinthians 15:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; [John 11:24; Revelation 20:4, 5]
• 15. Acts 24:15

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts a donkey
• [b]. Or your brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated "brothers") refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters