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Luke 14 📜 📕 ↷
Jesus Heals a Man with Dropsy
1 AND it came to pass when JESUS entered into the house of a certain Prince of the Pharisees upon the Sabboth to eat bread, and they watched him.📜💬📚
2 And behold there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy.📜💬📚
3 And JESUS answering, spake to the Lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it Lawful to cure on the Sabboth?📜💬📚
4 But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him, and sent him away.📜💬📚
5 And answering them he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit; and will not incontinent draw him out on the Sabboth day?📜💬📚
6 And they could not answer him to these things.📜💬📚
Parable of the Guests
7 And he spake to them also that were invited a parable, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:📜💬📚
8 When thou art invited to a marriage, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited of him;📜💬📚
9 and he that bade thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place: and then thou begin with shame to take the last place.📜💬📚
10 But when thou art bidden, go, sit down in the lowest place: that when he that invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend sit up higher: then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee.📜💬📚
11 because every one that exalteth him self, shall be humbled: and he that humbleth him self, shall be exalted.📜💬📚
12 And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor kinsmen, nor thy neighbours that are rich: lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and recompence be made to thee.📜💬📚
13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, feeble, lame, and blind,📜💬📚
14 and thou shalt be blessed, because they have not to recompence thee: for recompence shall be made thee in the resurrection of the just.📜💬📚
Parable of the Banquet
15 When one of them that sat at the table with him, had heard these things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God.📜💬📚
16 But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper, and called many.📜💬📚
17 And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to the invited, that they should come, because now all things are ready.📜💬📚
18 And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a farm, and I must needs go forth and see it; I pray thee hold me excused.📜💬📚
19 And an other said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee, hold me excused.📜💬📚
20 And an other said, I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come.📜💬📚
21 And the servant returning told these things to his Lord. Then the Master of the house being angry, said to his servant: Go forth quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and the poor and feeble and blind and lame bring in hither.📜💬📚
22 And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou didst command, and yet there is place.📜💬📚
23 And the Lord said to the servant: Go forth into the ways and hedges; and compel them to enter, that my house may be filled.📜💬📚
24 But I say to you, that none of those men that were called, shall taste my supper.📜💬📚
Cost of Discipleship
25 And great multitudes went with him; and turning, he said to them:📜💬📚
26 If any man come to me and hateth not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life besides; he can not be my disciple.📜💬📚
27 And he that doth not bear his cross and come after me; can not be my Disciple.📜💬📚
28 For, which of you minding to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have to finish it:📜💬📚
29 lest, after that he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that see it, begin to mock him,📜💬📚
30 saying, That this man began to build, and he could not finish it?📜💬📚
31 Or what king about to go to make war against an other king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able with ten thousands to meet him that with twenty thousands cometh against him?📜💬📚
32 Otherwise whiles he is yet far off, sending a legacy he asketh those things that belong to peace.📜💬📚
33 So therefore every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth, can not be my disciple.📜💬📚
Good Salt
34 Salt is good. But if the salt leese his virtue, wherewith shall it be seasoned?📜💬📚
35 It is profitable neither for the ground, nor for the dunghill, but it shall be cast forth. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.📜💬📚
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