Luke 14:1-15

1Now when Yeshua went into the home of one of the leaders of the Pharisees to eat a meal on Shabbat, they were watching Him closely.

2And there before Him was a man swollen with fluid.

3So Yeshua said to the Torah lawyers and the Pharisees, “Is it permitted to heal on Shabbat, or not?”

4But they kept silent. So Yeshua took hold of him and healed him, and He sent him away.

5Then He said to them, “Which of you, with a son or an ox falling into a well on Yom Shabbat, will not immediately pull him out?”

6And they could not reply to these things.

7Yeshua began telling a parable to those who had been invited, when He noticed how they were choosing the seats of honor. He said to them,

8“When you are invited by someone to a wedding, don’t take the seat of honor, for someone more highly esteemed than you may have been invited by him.

9Then the one who invited both of you will come to you and say, ‘Give up this seat.’ And with shame, you would proceed to take the lowest seat.

10But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest seat so that when the one who invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you shall be honored in the presence of all those who are dining with you.

11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

12Then Yeshua was also saying to the one who invited Him, “When you host a luncheon or dinner, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise they might invite you in return as your payback.

13But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;

14and you will be blessed, since they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

15Now hearing this, one of those dining with Yeshua said to Him, “Blessed is he who eats bread in the kingdom of God.”