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And He took hold of him, healed him, and sent him away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And He said to them, <span class="red">“<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>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> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And they could make no reply to this. <p class="hdg">Parable of the Wedding Feast</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And He was telling a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they were picking out the places of honor <i>at the table</i>, saying to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the place of honor, lest someone more highly regarded than you be invited by him,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give <i>your</i> place to this man,’ and then in shame you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>proceed to occupy the last place.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">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 recline at the table with you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, <span class="red">“When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and <i>that</i> will be your repayment.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">But when you give a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>reception, invite <i>the</i> poor, <i>the</i> crippled, <i>the</i> lame, <i>the</i> blind,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">and you will be blessed, since they <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>do not have <i>the means</i> to repay you; for it will be repaid to you at the resurrection of the righteous.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But 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 class="hdg">Parable of the Dinner</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And He said to him, <span class="red">“A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">And at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>piece of land and I need to go out and look at it. I ask you, consider me excused.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">And another one said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. I ask you, consider me excused.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">And another one said, ‘I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">And when the slave came <i>back</i>, he reported these things 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> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">And the slave said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and along the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fences, and compel <i>them</i> to come in, so that my house may be filled.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste of my dinner.’”</span> <p class="hdg">The Cost of Discipleship</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now many crowds were going along with Him, and He turned and said to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">“If anyone comes to Me, and does not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>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> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">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> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">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> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>a delegation and asks for terms of peace.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="red">So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="red">“Therefore, salt is good, but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/14-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>let him hear.”</span><A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Members of the Sanhedrin<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>Whose son of you...will fall</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>begin</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>banquet</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>are unable to</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>field</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Or <i>lanes</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> In comparison to his love for Me<br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Or <i>an embassy</i><br><span class="fnverse">35</span> Or <i>hear!</i> Or <i>listen!</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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