Luke 14

1When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.Cross-references: Ps 37:32 · Ps 41:6 · Ps 62:4 · Ps 64:5 · Prov 23:7 · Isa 29:20 · +10 more

2Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

3Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”Cross-references: Matt 12:2 · Matt 12:10 · Matt 22:35 · Mark 3:4 · Luke 6:9 · Luke 11:44 · +2 more

4But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.Cross-references: Matt 21:25 · Matt 22:46

5He answered them, “Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”Cross-references: Ex 23:4 · Dan 4:24 · Matt 12:11 · Luke 13:15

6They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.Cross-references: Matt 22:46 · Luke 13:17 · Luke 20:26 · Luke 20:40 · Luke 21:15 · Acts 6:10

7He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,Cross-references: Judg 14:12 · Prov 8:1 · Ezek 17:2 · Matt 13:34 · Matt 23:6 · Mark 12:38 · +5 more

8“When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,Cross-references: Prov 25:6

9and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.Cross-references: Esth 6:6 · Prov 3:35 · Prov 11:2 · Prov 16:18 · Ezek 28:2 · Dan 4:30

10But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:17 · Prov 15:33 · Prov 25:6 · Isa 60:14 · Rev 3:9

11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”Cross-references: 1Sam 15:17 · Job 22:29 · Job 40:10 · Ps 18:27 · Ps 138:6 · Prov 15:33 · +11 more

12He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.Cross-references: Prov 14:20 · Prov 22:16 · Zech 7:5 · Matt 5:46 · Matt 6:1 · Matt 6:16 · +3 more

13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;Cross-references: Deut 14:29 · Deut 16:11 · Deut 16:14 · Deut 26:12 · 2Sam 6:19 · 2Chr 30:24 · +24 more

14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”Cross-references: Prov 19:17 · Dan 12:2 · Matt 6:4 · Matt 10:41 · Matt 25:34 · Luke 20:35 · +4 more

15When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”Cross-references: Matt 8:11 · Matt 25:10 · Luke 12:37 · Luke 13:29 · Luke 22:30 · John 6:27 · +1 more

16But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.Cross-references: Prov 9:1 · Song 5:1 · Isa 25:6 · Isa 55:1 · Jer 31:12 · Zech 10:7 · +4 more

17He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’Cross-references: Prov 9:1 · Matt 3:1 · Matt 10:1 · Matt 11:27 · Matt 22:3 · Luke 3:4 · +8 more

18They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’Cross-references: Isa 28:12 · Isa 29:11 · Jer 5:4 · Jer 6:10 · Jer 6:16 · Matt 22:5 · +15 more

19“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

20“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’Cross-references: Deut 24:5 · Luke 14:26 · Luke 18:29 · 1Cor 7:29 · 1Cor 7:33

21“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’Cross-references: 1Sam 2:8 · 1Sam 25:12 · Ps 2:12 · Ps 38:7 · Ps 113:7 · Prov 1:20 · +29 more

22“The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’Cross-references: Ps 103:6 · Ps 130:7 · John 14:2 · Acts 1:1 · Eph 3:8 · Col 2:9 · +3 more

23“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.Cross-references: Gen 19:2 · Ps 98:3 · Ps 110:3 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 19:24 · Isa 27:13 · +28 more

24For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. For many are called, but few are chosen.’”Cross-references: Prov 1:24 · Matt 21:43 · Matt 22:8 · Matt 23:38 · John 3:19 · John 3:36 · +4 more

25Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,Cross-references: Luke 12:1 · John 6:24

26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.Cross-references: Gen 29:30 · Deut 13:6 · Deut 21:15 · Deut 33:9 · Job 7:15 · Ps 73:25 · +8 more

27Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.Cross-references: Matt 10:38 · Matt 13:21 · Matt 16:24 · Mark 8:34 · Mark 10:21 · Mark 15:21 · +5 more

28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?Cross-references: Gen 11:4 · Josh 24:19 · Prov 24:27 · Matt 8:20 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 20:22 · +4 more

29Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

30saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’Cross-references: Matt 7:27 · Matt 27:3 · Acts 1:18 · 1Cor 3:11 · Heb 6:4 · Heb 6:11 · +3 more

31Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?Cross-references: 1Ki 20:11 · 2Ki 18:20 · Prov 20:18 · Prov 25:8

32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:31 · 2Ki 10:4 · Job 40:9 · Matt 5:25 · Luke 12:58 · Acts 12:20 · +1 more

33So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.Cross-references: Luke 5:11 · Luke 5:28 · Luke 14:26 · Luke 18:22 · Luke 18:28 · Acts 5:1 · +4 more

34“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?Cross-references: Matt 5:13 · Mark 9:49 · Col 4:6 · Heb 2:4

35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”Cross-references: Matt 11:15 · Matt 13:9 · Luke 8:8 · Luke 9:44 · John 15:6 · Rev 2:7 · +3 more