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A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, <span id="v49014009" class="ver">9</span>and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. <span id="v49014010" class="ver">10</span>Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’ Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. <span id="v49014011" class="ver">11</span>For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”<a id="ren49014011-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014011-h">h</a> <span id="v49014012" class="ver">12</span>Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment.<a id="ren49014012-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014012-i">i</a> <span id="v49014013" class="ver">13</span>Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; <span id="v49014014" class="ver">14</span>blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”<a id="ren49014014-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014014-j">j</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Parable of the Great Feast.<a id="rfn49014015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49014015-1">*</a></span> <span id="v49014015" class="ver">15</span>One of his fellow guests on hearing this said to him, “Blessed is the one who will dine in the kingdom of God.” <span id="v49014016" class="ver">16</span><a id="ren49014016-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014016-k">k</a> He replied to him, “A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many. <span id="v49014017" class="ver">17</span>When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’ <span id="v49014018" class="ver">18</span>But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.’ <span id="v49014019" class="ver">19</span>And another said, ‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen and am on my way to evaluate them; I ask you, consider me excused.’ <span id="v49014020" class="ver">20</span>And another said, ‘I have just married a woman, and therefore I cannot come.’ <span id="v49014021" class="ver">21</span>The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ <span id="v49014022" class="ver">22</span>The servant reported, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out and still there is room.’ <span id="v49014023" class="ver">23</span>The master then ordered the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled. <span id="v49014024" class="ver">24</span>For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.’ ”</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Sayings on Discipleship.<a id="rfn49014025-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49014025-1">*</a></span> <span id="v49014025" class="ver">25</span>Great crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and addressed them, <span id="v49014026" class="ver">26</span><a id="ren49014026-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014026-l">l</a> “If any one comes to me without hating his father<a id="rfn49014026-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49014026-1">*</a> and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.<a id="ren49014026-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014026-m">m</a> <span id="v49014027" class="ver">27</span>Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.<a id="ren49014027-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014027-n">n</a> <span id="v49014028" class="ver">28</span>Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? <span id="v49014029" class="ver">29</span>Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him <span id="v49014030" class="ver">30</span>and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ <span id="v49014031" class="ver">31</span>Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? <span id="v49014032" class="ver">32</span>But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. <span id="v49014033" class="ver">33</span>In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.<a id="ren49014033-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014033-o">o</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Simile of Salt.<a id="rfn49014034-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49014034-1">*</a></span> <span id="v49014034" class="ver">34</span>“Salt is good, but if salt itself loses its taste, with what can its flavor be restored?<a id="ren49014034-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014034-p">p</a> <span id="v49014035" class="ver">35</span>It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear.”<a id="ren49014035-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49014035-q">q</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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