[Luke 14]

 

            {Luk 14:1-24; Probably Peraea; Luk 14:25-17:10; no parallels.}

             ^14:1 And it happened, while^* he was going into a house of a certain one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they themselves were observing him. ^14:2 And behold, there was before him, a certain man with dropsy. ^14:3 And Jesus answered and spoke to the professors of the law and Pharisees, saying, If it is not^* legal to heal on the Sabbath, then? ^14:4 But they were quiet. And he grabbed him, healed him and released him. ^14:5 And he answered and said to them, Of which one of you^° will a son or a bull fall into a well, and he will not be immediately pulling him up on the Sabbath day? ^14:6 And they were not strong-enough to answer back to him as to these things.

 

             ^14:7 Now he spoke a parable to the ones who have been invited, while taking-heed how they were choosing for themselves the foremost-places; saying to them: ^14:8 Whenever you might be invited by anyone to a marriage-festivities, do not recline in the foremost-place; because maybe a more admired one than you may be invited by him, ^14:9 and the one who invited you and him, when he has come, will say to you, Give this one your place, and then you may begin with shame to hold the last place. ^14:10 But whenever you might be invited, after traveling there, lean-back in the last place; in-order-that whenever he who has invited you comes, he might say to you, Friend, advance upward, and then glory will be to you in the sight of the ones reclining at the table together-with you. ^14:11 Because everyone who is exalting himself will be humbled, and the one humbling himself will be exalted.

 

             ^14:12 Now he was also saying to the one who invited him, Whenever you make^* a meal or a supper, do not summon your friends, nor your brethren, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors; lest they themselves may also invite you too and it might become a repayment for you. ^14:13 But whenever you make^* a banquet, invite the poor, the disabled, the lame, the blind; ^14:14 and you will be fortunate, because they do not have anything in which to repay you; for^* you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.

 

             {Similar: Mat 22:1-14, Luk 14:15-24}

             ^14:15 Now after someone from the ones reclining at the meal together-with him heard these things, he said to him, Whoever will be eating a meal in the kingdom of God is fortunate.

             ^14:16 But he said to him, A certain man made^* a great supper, and he invited many; ^14:17 and he sent forth his bondservant in the hour of the supper to say to the ones who have been invited, Come^°, because all things are already prepared. ^14:18 And they all, from one desire, began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I bought a field, and I have a necessity to go forth and to see it. I request of you, have me excused!

             ^14:19 And a different one said, I bought five yokes of bulls, and I am traveling on to test them. I request of you, have me excused!

             ^14:20 And a different one said, I married a wife, and because of this, I am not able to come. ^14:21 And that bondservant came^* and reported to his lord these things. Then the householder was made angry, and said to his bondservant, Go forth quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and lead the poor and disabled and lame and blind in here.

             ^14:22 And the bondservant said, Lord, it has happened as you commanded, and a place is still empty.

               ^14:23 And the lord said to the bondservant, Go forth into the roads and over the fences, and urge them to enter in-order-that my house may be filled. ^14:24 For^* I am saying to you^°, None of those men who have been invited will be tasting of my supper. For^* many are the invited ones but few chosen.

 

             {Similar: Mat 10:37-38, Luk 14:25-27}

             ^14:25 Now large crowds were traveling together-with him and he turned and said to them, ^14:26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and also, still his own life, he is not able to be my disciple. ^14:27 And whoever does not bear his own cross, and comes after me, is not able to be my disciple.

             ^14:28 For^* who out-of you^°, wishing to build a tower, has not first sat down and calculate the cost, if he has the means toward its realization? ^14:29 In order that he did not lay a foundation, and later not being strong-enough to complete, all who view it may begin to mock him, ^14:30 saying, This man began to build and was not strong-enough to complete.

             ^14:31 Or what king, when traveling to confront a different king in war, does not sit down first and plan if he is able at ten thousand to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? ^14:32 Otherwise, after he sent an emissary, while still being faraway, he himself asks for the terms toward peace. ^14:33 Therefore, so everyone out-of you^° who is not bidding farewell to all his own possessions, he is not able to be my disciple. ^14:34 The salt is good, but if the salt is flavorless, in what will it be seasoned? ^14:35 It is fit neither ^*for the soil nor ^*for the manure-pile. Cast it outside. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.