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          DASV: Luke 14    

1 Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the
Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread. They were watching
him closely.
2 There was before him a certain man who had dropsy.
3 Jesus spoke to the scribes and Pharisees, saying, "Is
it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"
4 But they remained silent. Jesus took him, healed him and
let him go.
5 Then he said to them, "Which of you who has a child or an ox
that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him
out on a Sabbath day?"
6 They had no answer for this either.

7 He noticed how those who were invited to dinner chose the places
of honor. He told them a parable.
8 "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not
sit in the place of honor or perhaps someone invited was more
honorable than you;
9 then he who invited you will come and say to you, 'Give this
person your place.' Then disgraced you will take the lowest place.
10 But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place;
that the host may come and say to you, 'Friend, come up to a higher
place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who are
seated at the dinner with you.
11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled; and whoever
humbles himself will be exalted."

12 Then Jesus said to the one who had invited him, "When you make
a lunch or supper, do not call your friends, or your brothers, or
your relatives, or rich neighbors, in case they invite you back to
repay you.
13 But when you prepare a banquet, invite the poor, maimed, lame
and blind.
14 Then you will be blessed; because they have nothing to repay you
with, then you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.

15 When one of those who sat at dinner with him heard these
things, he said to him, "Blessed is the one who will eat bread
in the kingdom of God."
16 But Jesus responded to him, "A certain person made a great
banquet and invited many.
17 He sent his servant out at dinner time to announce to the guests,
'Come, for everything is ready.'
18 But they all began making excuses. The first said to him,
'I just bought a field, and I need to go out and see it. Please
excuse me.
19 Another said, 'I just bought five yoke of oxen, and I need to
try them out. Please excuse me.'
20 Another said, 'I just got married, and therefore I cannot come.'
21 So the servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the
master of the house got angry said to his servant, "Go quickly
into the streets and lanes of the town, and bring in here the
poor, maimed, blind and lame."
22 The servant said, "Lord, what you have ordered is done, and yet
there is still room."
23 The lord said to the servant, "Go out into the highways and
hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.
24 For I tell you, that none of those people who were originally
invited will taste of my banquet."

25 Now there were large crowds traveling with him so he turned, and
said to them,
26 "If any one comes to me, and does not hate his own father, mother,
wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, even his own life too,
he cannot be my disciple.
27 Whoever does not carry his cross, and follow me, cannot be my
disciple.
28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first
sit down and count the cost, whether he has the wherewithal
to complete it?
29 Otherwise when he has laid a foundation and is not able to
finish it, everyone who sees it will begin to laugh at him,
30 saying, 'Here's a person who begins to build, but is unable
to finish.'
31 Or what king, as he goes to make war with another king,
will not first sit down and determine whether he is able with
ten thousand to engage one who attacks him with twenty thousand?
32 If he cannot, while the other is still a distance away,
he will send an ambassador, and ask for conditions of peace.
33 Similarly, any one of you who does not renounce all that
he has, he cannot be my disciple.
34 Salt is good; but if salt has lost its flavor, how is it
be made salty again?
35 It is worthless suited neither for the land or for the manure
pile but to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear,
let him hear."

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