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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Luke 14 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Luke 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/13.htm" title="Luke 13">◄</a> Luke 14 <a href="../luke/15.htm" title="Luke 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Jesus Heals a Sick Man</h3><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_1"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.1" class="v42_14_1">1</span>One Sabbath Jesus went to eat a meal at the home of one of the leading Pharisees; and people were watching Jesus closely. </span><span class="v42_14_2"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.2" class="v42_14_2">2</span>A man whose legs and arms were swollen came to Jesus, </span><span class="v42_14_3"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.3" class="v42_14_3">3</span>and Jesus spoke up and asked the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees, “Does our Law allow healing on the Sabbath or not?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_4"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.4" class="v42_14_4">4</span>But they would not say a thing. Jesus took the man, healed him, and sent him away. </span><span class="v42_14_5"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.5" class="v42_14_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.14.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then he said to them, “If any one of you had a child or an ox that happened to fall in a well on a Sabbath, would you not pull it out at once on the Sabbath itself?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_6"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.6" class="v42_14_6">6</span>But they were not able to answer him about this.</span></p><h3 class="s">Humility and Hospitality</h3><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_7"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.7" class="v42_14_7">7</span>Jesus noticed how some of the guests were choosing the best places, so he told this parable to all of them: </span><span class="v42_14_8"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.8" class="v42_14_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.14.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place. It could happen that someone more important than you has been invited, </span><span class="v42_14_9"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.9" class="v42_14_9">9</span>and your host, who invited both of you, would have to come and say to you, ‘Let him have this place.’ Then you would be embarrassed and have to sit in the lowest place. </span><span class="v42_14_10"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.10" class="v42_14_10">10</span>Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that your host will come to you and say, ‘Come on up, my friend, to a better place.’ This will bring you honor in the presence of all the other guests. </span><span class="v42_14_11"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.11" class="v42_14_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.14.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_12"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.12" class="v42_14_12">12</span>Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors—for they will invite you back, and in this way you will be paid for what you did. </span><span class="v42_14_13"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.13" class="v42_14_13">13</span>When you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind; </span><span class="v42_14_14"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.14" class="v42_14_14">14</span>and you will be blessed, because they are not able to pay you back. God will repay you on the day the good people rise from death.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Parable of the Great Feast</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 22:1-10">Matthew 22.1-10</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_15"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.15" class="v42_14_15">15</span>When one of the guests sitting at the table heard this, he said to Jesus, “How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_16"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.16" class="v42_14_16">16</span>Jesus said to him, “There was once a man who was giving a great feast to which he invited many people. </span><span class="v42_14_17"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.17" class="v42_14_17">17</span>When it was time for the feast, he sent his servant to tell his guests, ‘Come, everything is ready!’ </span><span class="v42_14_18"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.18" class="v42_14_18">18</span>But they all began, one after another, to make excuses. The first one told the servant, ‘I have bought a field and must go and look at it; please accept my apologies.’ </span><span class="v42_14_19"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.19" class="v42_14_19">19</span>Another one said, ‘I have bought five pairs of oxen and am on my way to try them out; please accept my apologies.’ </span><span class="v42_14_20"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.20" class="v42_14_20">20</span>Another one said, ‘I have just gotten married, and for that reason I cannot come.’ </span><span class="v42_14_21"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.21" class="v42_14_21">21</span>The servant went back and told all this to his master. The master was furious and said to his servant, ‘Hurry out to the streets and alleys of the town, and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ </span><span class="v42_14_22"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.22" class="v42_14_22">22</span>Soon the servant said, ‘Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is room for more.’ </span><span class="v42_14_23"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.23" class="v42_14_23">23</span>So the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the country roads and lanes and make people come in, so that my house will be full. </span><span class="v42_14_24"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.24" class="v42_14_24">24</span>I tell you all that none of those who were invited will taste my dinner!’”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Cost of Being a Disciple</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 10:37">Matthew 10.37</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 10:38">38</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_25"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.25" class="v42_14_25">25</span>Once when large crowds of people were going along with Jesus, he turned and said to them, </span><span class="v42_14_26"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.26" class="v42_14_26">26</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.14.26!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Those who come to me cannot be my disciples unless they love me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well. </span><span class="v42_14_27"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.27" class="v42_14_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.14.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Those who do not carry their own cross and come after me cannot be my disciples. </span><span class="v42_14_28"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.28" class="v42_14_28">28</span>If one of you is planning to build a tower, you sit down first and figure out what it will cost, to see if you have enough money to finish the job. </span><span class="v42_14_29"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.29" class="v42_14_29">29</span>If you don't, you will not be able to finish the tower after laying the foundation; and all who see what happened will make fun of you. </span><span class="v42_14_30"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.30" class="v42_14_30">30</span>‘You began to build but can't finish the job!’ they will say. </span><span class="v42_14_31"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.31" class="v42_14_31">31</span>If a king goes out with ten thousand men to fight another king who comes against him with twenty thousand men, he will sit down first and decide if he is strong enough to face that other king. </span><span class="v42_14_32"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.32" class="v42_14_32">32</span>If he isn't, he will send messengers to meet the other king to ask for terms of peace while he is still a long way off. </span><span class="v42_14_33"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.33" class="v42_14_33">33</span>In the same way,” concluded Jesus, “none of you can be my disciple unless you give up everything you have.</span></p><h3 class="s">Worthless Salt</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 5:13">Matthew 5.13</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 9:50">Mark 9.50</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_14_34"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.34" class="v42_14_34">34</span>“Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, there is no way to make it salty again. </span><span class="v42_14_35"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.14.35" class="v42_14_35">35</span>It is no good for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown away. 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