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And He took hold of him and healed him, and sent him away. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>And He said to them, Which one of you will have a son or an ox fall into a well, and will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>And they could make no reply to this.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Parable of the Guests</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>And He <i>began</i> speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor <i>at the table,</i> saying to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>and he who invited you both will come and say to you, Give <i>your</i> place to this man, and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, move up higher; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and <i>that</i> will be your repayment. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>But when you give a reception, invite <i>the</i> poor, <i>the</i> crippled, <i>the</i> lame, <i>the</i> blind, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>and you will be blessed, since they do not have <i>the means</i> to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>When one of those who were reclining <i>at the table</i> with Him heard this, he said to Him, Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Parable of the Dinner</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>But He said to him, A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, Come; for everything is ready now. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Another one said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Another one said, I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>And the slave came <i>back</i> and reported this to his master. Then the head of the household became angry and said to his slave, Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>And the slave said, Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>And the master said to the slave, Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel <i>them</i> to come in, so that my house may be filled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste of my dinner.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Discipleship Tested</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand <i>men</i> to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/14-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. 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