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. 14:1 ch. 7:36; 11:37
• 2. 14:1 ch. 20:20; Mark 3:2
• 3. 14:3 See ch. 7:30
• 4. 14:3 ch. 13:14; Matt. 12:10
• 5. 14:5 ch. 13:15; [Deut. 22:4; Matt. 12:11]
• 6. 14:6 [Matt. 22:46]
• 7. 14:7 See ch. 11:43
• 8. 14:10 Prov. 25:6, 7
• 9. 14:11 ch. 18:14; [Prov. 29:23; Ezek. 21:26; Matt. 18:4; James 4:6, 10; 1 Pet. 5:5, 6]
• 10. 14:12 John 21:12 (Gk.)
• 11. 14:12 [ch. 6:34]
• 12. 14:13 [Neh. 8:10, 12; Esth. 9:22]
• 13. 14:13 ver. 21
• 14. 14:14 1 Cor. 15:23; 1 Thess. 4:16; [John 11:24; Rev. 20:4, 5]
• 15. 14:14 Acts 24:15

Footnotes

• [a] 14:5 Some manuscripts 'a donkey'
• [b] 14:12 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'