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| | Luk 14:1 | One day--it was a Sabbath--He was taking a meal at the house of one of the Rulers of the Pharisee party, while they were closely watching Him.
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| | Luk 14:2 | In front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
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| | Luk 14:3 | This led Jesus to ask the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it allowable to cure people on the Sabbath?"
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| | Luk 14:4 | They gave Him no answer; so He took hold of the man, cured him, and sent him away.
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| | Luk 14:5 | Then He turned to them and said, "Which of you shall have a child or an ox fall into a well on the Sabbath day, and will not immediately lift him out?"
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| | Luk 14:6 | To this they could make no reply.
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| | Luk 14:7 | Then, when He noticed that the invited guests chose the best seats, He used this as an illustration and said to them,
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| | Luk 14:8 | "When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,
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| | Luk 14:9 | and the man who invited you both will come and will say to you, `Make room for this guest,' and then you, ashamed, will move to the lowest place.
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| | Luk 14:10 | On the contrary, when you are invited go and take the lowest place, that when your host comes round he may say to you, `My friend, come up higher.' This will be doing you honour in the presence of all the other guests.
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| | Luk 14:11 | For whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted.
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| | Luk 14:12 | Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.
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| | Luk 14:13 | But when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;
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| | Luk 14:14 | and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous."
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| | Luk 14:15 | After listening to this teaching, one of His fellow guests said to Him, "Blessed is he who shall feast in God's Kingdom."
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| | Luk 14:16 | "A man once gave a great dinner," replied Jesus, "to which he invited a large number of guests.
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| | Luk 14:17 | At dinner-time he sent his servant to announce to those who had been invited, "`Come, for things are now ready.'
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| | Luk 14:18 | "But they all without exception began to excuse themselves. The first told him, "`I have purchased a piece of land, and must of necessity go and look at it. Pray hold me excused.'
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| | Luk 14:19 | "A second pleaded, "`I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am on my way to try them. Pray hold me excused.'
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| | Luk 14:20 | "Another said, "`I am just married. It is impossible for me to come.'
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| | Luk 14:21 | "So the servant came and brought these answers to his master, and they stirred his anger. "`Go out quickly,' he said, `into the streets of the city--the wide ones and the narrow. You will see poor men, and crippled, blind, lame: fetch them all in here.'
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| | Luk 14:22 | "Soon the servant reported the result, saying, "`Sir, what you ordered is done, and there is room still.'
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| | Luk 14:23 | "`Go out,' replied the master, `to the high roads and hedge-rows, and compel the people to come in, so that my house may be filled.
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| | Luk 14:24 | For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my dinner.'"
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| | Luk 14:25 | On His journey vast crowds attended Him, towards whom He turned and said,
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| | Luk 14:26 | "If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
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| | Luk 14:27 | No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.
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| | Luk 14:28 | "Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it? --
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| | Luk 14:29 | lest perhaps, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to finish, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him,
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| | Luk 14:30 | saying, `This man began to build, but could not finish.'
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| | Luk 14:31 | Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?
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| | Luk 14:32 | If not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends messengers and sues for peace.
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| | Luk 14:33 | Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine.
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| | Luk 14:34 | "Salt is good: but if even the salt has become tasteless, what will you use to season it?
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| | Luk 14:35 | Neither for land nor dunghill is it of any use; they throw it away. Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
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