1And it happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him. 2And behold, there was before him a certain man who had the dropsy. 3And Yeshua answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not? 4But they were silent. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go. 5And he said to them, Which of you shall have a donkey or an ox fallen into a well, and will not immediately draw him up on a sabbath day? 6And they could not reply to these things. 7And he spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose out the chief seats; saying to them, 8When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not sit down in the chief seat; lest perhaps a more honorable man than you be invited by him, 9and he who invited you and him shall come and say to you, Give this man place; and then you shall begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place; that when he who has invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher: then you shall have glory in the presence of all who recline at table with you. 11For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled; and he who humbles himself shall be exalted. 12And he said to him also who had invited him, When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors; lest perhaps they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made to you. 13But when you make a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14and you shall be blessed; because they have nothing with which to recompense you: for you shall be recompensed in the resurrection of the just. 15And when one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16But he said to him, A certain man made a great supper; and he invited many: 17and he sent out his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, Come; for all things are now ready. 18And they all with one consent 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. 19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to test them; please have me excused. 20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21And the 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 here the poor and maimed and blind and lame. 22And the servant said, Lord, what you commanded is done, and yet there is room. 23And 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. 24For I say to you, that none of those men who were invited shall taste of my supper. 25Now there went with him great multitudes: and he turned, and said to them, 26If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27Whoever does not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29Lest perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation, and asks conditions of peace. 33So therefore whoever of you does not renounce all that he has, he cannot be my disciple. 34Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt has lost its savor, with what shall it be seasoned? 35It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: men cast it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.