Healing at a Pharisee's House and Humility at the Table
Luke 14:1-14
1And it came about that he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, and they were watching him.2And behold, a certain man who had dropsy was before him.3And Jesus answered and said to the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"4But they remained silent, and taking hold of him he healed him and let him go.5And he said to them, Which of you, if his son or his ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?6And they were unable to reply to these things.7Then he spoke a parable to those who had been invited, when he noticed how they were choosing the places of honor, saying to them,8When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline in the place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him.9And the one who invited you and him will come and say to you, Give your place to this person, and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.10But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, Friend, move up higher. Then you will have honor in the presence of all who recline with you.11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.12He also said to the one who had invited him, When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.13But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind.14And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.