Luke 14:11-18

¹¹Also, remember this: God will humble those who exalt themselves. And he will exalt those who humble themselves.”

¹²Jesus also said to the Pharisee who had invited him to the meal, “When you (sg) invite people to a midday or evening meal, do not invite your friends or your family or your other relatives or your rich neighbors. They can later invite you (sg) for a meal. In that way they will repay you.

¹³Instead, when you (sg) give a feast, invite poor people, crippled people, lame people, or blind people.

¹⁴They will be unable to repay you. But God will bless you! He will repay you at the time when he causes righteous people to become alive again.”

¹⁵One of those who were eating with Jesus heard him say that. He said to Jesus, “God has truly blessed us Jews who will eat with the Messiah when he starts to rule!”

¹⁶But to show that many Jews whom God had invited would not accept God's invitation MET, Jesus replied to him, “One time a man decided to prepare a large feast. He invited many people to come.

¹⁷When it was the day for the feast, he sent his servant to tell those who had been {whom he had} invited, ‘Come now because everything is ready!’

¹⁸But when the servant did that, all of the people whom he had invited began to say why they did not want to come. The first man the servant went to said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please ask your master to forgive me for not coming!’