14One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.G2532G1096G1722G846G2064G1519G3624G5100G758G5330G5315G740G4521G2532G846G2258G3906G8462And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.G2532G2400G2258G5100G444G1715G846G52033And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"G2532G2424G611G2036G4314G3544G2532G5330G3004G1487G1832G2323G45214But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away.G1161G2270G2532G1949G2390G846G2532G6305And he said to them, "Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"G2532G611G4314G846G2036G5101G5216G3688G2228G1016G1706G1519G5421G2532G385G3756G2112G385G846G385G1722G4521G22506And they could not reply to these things.G2532G2480G3756G470G846G470G4314G50237Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,G1161G3004G3850G4314G2564G1907G4459G1586G4411G3004G4314G8468"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,G3752G2564G5259G5100G1519G1062G2625G3361G2625G1519G4411G3379G1784G4675G5600G2564G5259G8469and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give your place to this person,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.G2532G2564G4571G2532G846G2064G2046G4671G1325G5129G5117G2532G5119G756G3326G152G2722G2078G511710But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.G235G3752G2564G4198G377G1519G2078G5117G2443G3752G2564G4571G2064G2036G4671G5384G4320G511G5119G4671G2071G1391G1799G4873G467111For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."G3754G3956G5312G1438G5013G2532G5013G1438G531212He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.G1161G3004G2532G2564G846G3752G4160G712G2228G1173G5455G3361G4675G5384G3366G4675G80G3366G4675G4773G3366G4145G1069G3379G846G2532G479G4571G479G2532G468G1096G467113But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,G235G3752G4160G1403G2564G4434G376G5560G518514and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."G2532G2071G3107G3754G3756G2192G467G4671G1063G4671G467G1722G386G134215When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!"G1161G5100G4873G191G5023G2036G846G3107G3739G5315G740G1722G932G231616But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.G1161G2036G846G5100G444G4160G3173G1173G2532G2564G418317And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.'G2532G649G846G1401G1173G5610G2036G2564G2064G3754G3956G2076G2235G209218But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.'G2532G3956G575G3391G756G3868G4413G2036G846G59G68G2532G2192G318G1831G2532G1492G846G2065G4571G2192G3165G386819And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.'G2532G2087G2036G59G4002G2201G1016G2532G4198G1381G846G2065G4571G2192G3165G386820And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'G2532G2087G2036G1060G1135G2532G1223G5124G3756G1410G206421So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.'G2532G1565G1401G3854G518G846G2962G5023G5119G3617G3710G2036G846G1401G1831G5030G1519G4113G2532G4505G4172G2532G1521G5602G4434G2532G376G2532G5560G2532G518522And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.'G2532G1401G2036G2962G1096G5613G2004G2532G2089G2076G511723And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.G2532G2962G2036G4314G1401G1831G1519G3598G2532G5418G2532G315G1525G2443G3450G3624G107224For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.'"G1063G3004G5213G3754G3762G1565G435G3588G2564G1089G3450G117325Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,G1161G4848G4183G3793G846G2532G4762G2036G4314G84626"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.G1536G2064G4314G3165G2532G3404G3756G1438G3962G2532G3384G2532G1135G2532G5043G2532G80G2532G79G2089G1161G1438G5590G2532G3756G1410G1511G3450G310127Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.G2532G3748G941G3756G941G846G4716G2532G2064G3694G3450G3756G1410G1511G3450G310128For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?G1063G5101G1537G5216G2309G3618G4444G2523G3780G2523G4412G5585G1160G1487G2192G4314G53529Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,G3363G3379G846G5087G2310G2532G2480G3361G2480G1615G3956G2334G756G1702G84630saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'G3004G3754G3778G444G756G3618G2532G2480G3756G2480G161531Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?G2228G5101G935G4198G4820G4171G1519G2087G935G2523G3780G2523G4412G1011G1487G2076G1415G1722G1176G5505G528G2064G1909G846G3326G1501G550532And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.G1490G846G5607G2089G4206G649G4242G2065G4314G151533So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.G3779G3767G3956G1537G5216G3739G657G3756G3956G5224G1438G3756G1410G1511G3450G310134"Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?G217G2570G1161G1437G217G3471G1722G5101G74135It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."G2076G3777G2111G1519G1093G3777G1519G2874G906G846G1854G2192G3775G191G191