14:1And it was done, when Jesus went into the house of a certain ruler of the Pharisees on the sabbath to eat bread, that they themselves were watching him. 14:2And look, a certain man with dropsy was before him. 14:3And answering, Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: "Is it allowed to cure on the sabbath?" 14:4But they were silent. 14:4He, however, took hold of him and healed him, and let him go. 14:5And answering them, he said: "Whose ass or ox of yours will fall into a well, and he will not at once pull it out on the day of the sabbath?" 14:6And they could not answer him to these things.
14:7And he was saying also to those invited a parable, noticing how they were choosing the first places at table, saying to them: "When you have been invited to a wedding, do not recline in the first place, lest perhaps one more honoured than you has been invited by him. 14:9And he who called you and him, coming, may say to you: 'Give this man the place': and then you may begin with shame to take the last place. 14:10But when you have been called, go, recline in the last place: so that, when he who invited you comes, he may say to you: 'Friend, go up higher.' 14:10Then there will be glory for you before those reclining with you: because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled: and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
14:12And he was saying also to him who had invited him: "When you make a lunch or a dinner, do not call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbours: lest perhaps they too invite you back, and a repayment be made to you; 14:13But when you make a banquet, call the poor, the weak, the lame, and the blind: and you will be blessed, because they do not have the means to repay you: for it will be repaid to you at the resurrection of the just." 14:15When a certain one of those reclining with him had heard these things, he said to him: "Blessed is he who will eat bread in the kingdom of God."
14:16But he said to him: "A certain man made a great dinner, and called many. 14:17And he sent his servant at the hour of the dinner to say to those invited that they should come, because now all things are ready. 14:18And they all began together to make excuses. 14:18The first said to him: 'I have bought a farm, and I have need to go out and see it: I ask you, have me excused.' 14:19And another said: 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them: I ask you, have me excused.' 14:20And another said: 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' 14:21And the servant, having returned, reported these things to his lord.
14:21Then the father of the household, angered, said to his servant: 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city: and the poor, and the weak, and the blind, and the lame, bring in here.' 14:22And the servant said: 'Lord, it has been done as you commanded, and still there is room.' 14:23And the lord said to the servant: 'Go out into the roads and hedges: and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled. 14:24But I say to you that none of those men who were called will taste my dinner.'" 14:25Now many crowds were going with him: and turning, he said to them: "If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and moreover his own life too, he cannot be my disciple.
14:27And whoever does not carry his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 14:28For which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the costs which are necessary, whether he has enough for completing it, lest, after he has laid the foundation and has not been able to complete it, all who see begin to mock him, saying: 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish'? 14:31Or what king, about to go to wage war against another king, does not first sit down and consider whether he can with ten thousand meet him who is coming against him with twenty thousand?
14:32Otherwise, while that one is still far off, sending an embassy he asks for the things which are of peace. 14:33So therefore everyone of you who does not renounce all the things which he possesses cannot be my disciple. 14:34Salt is good: but if the salt has lost its savour, with what will it be seasoned? 14:35Neither for the land nor for the dunghill is it useful, but it will be thrown outside. 14:35He who has ears for hearing, let him hear."