Luke 14:7-24

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.”

16But Yeshua said to him, “A certain man was hosting a large banquet, and he invited many.

17At the time for the banquet, he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, everything is already prepared.’

18“But every one of them began to beg off. The first said to him, ‘I bought a farm, and I’m obligated to go out to see it. I’m asking you to have me excused.’

19Then another one said, ‘I’ve purchased five teams of oxen, and I’m going to check them out. I’m asking you to have me excused.’

20Still another said, ‘I’ve married a wife, so I cannot come.’

21“The slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house got angry and said to his slave, ‘Quickly go out into the squares and alleys of the city and bring here the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.’

22“And the slave said, ‘Master, I have done as you instructed, and still there is room.’

23“So the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the thoroughfares and fenced areas, and press them to come in so my home may be filled.

24For I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”