Gospel According To Luke

Gospel According to Luke (MLV)

Luke 14)

^14:1 And it happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were observing him.^14:2 And behold, there was before him a certain man having dropsy.^14:3 And Jesus answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?^14:4 But they were quiet. And he took him and healed him and dismissed him.^14:5 And he said to them, Which of you* will have a donkey or an ox fallen into a well and will not immediately draw him up on a Sabbath day?^14:6 And they could not answer back to these things.

^14:7 And he spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he took-heed of how they chose out the chief seats; saying to them,^14:8 When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not recline in the chief seat; lest a more honorable man than you be invited by him,^14:9 and he who invited you and him will come and say to you, Give this man your place; and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.^14:10 But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place; that when he who has invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher and then you will have glory in the presence of all who recline at the table with you*.^14:11 Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled; and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

^14:12 And he said to him also that had invited him, When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends, nor your brethren, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors; lest they also invite you in return and a repayment is made to you*.^14:13 But when you make a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:^14:14 and you will be blessed; because they do not have anything in which to repay you*: for* you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.

^14:15 And when one of those who reclined at the meal with him heard these things, he said to him, He who will eat bread in the kingdom of God is blessed.^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 supper to say to those who were invited, Come; because all things are already prepared.^14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a field and I have a necessity to go out and see it; I pray you have me excused.^14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove them; I pray you have me excused.^14:20 And another said, I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come.^14:21 And the bondservant came and reported to his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his bondservant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring the poor and maimed and blind and lame in here.^14:22 And the bondservant said, Lord, what you commanded is done and yet there is more places.^14:23 And the lord said to the bondservant, Go out into the roads and over the fences and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.^14:24 For* I say to you*, that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.

^14:25 Now there went with him great crowds and he turned and said to them,^14:26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.^14:27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.^14:28 For* which of you*, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough FOR its completion?^14:29 Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who behold begin to mock him,^14:30 saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.^14:31 Or what king, as he is going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who is coming against him with twenty thousand?^14:32 Or else, while the other is yet far away, he having sent a delegation, asks the conditions of peace.^14:33 Therefore so everyone of you* who does not renounce all that he has, he is not able to be my disciple.^14:34 Salt is good: but if the salt becomes tasteless, what shall it be seasoned with?^14:35 It is fit neither for the land nor for the manure: cast it outside. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.