Luke 14:17-20

¹⁷And at meal time he sent his slave to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

¹⁸But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him: ‘I bought a field, and I need to go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’

¹⁹Another said: ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’

²⁰Yet another said, ‘I have married a wife, and so I cannot come.’