Luke 14:12-24 - The Parable Of The Great Banquet

¹² Then he also said to the one who invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers, your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid. ¹³ But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, ¹⁴ and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

¹⁵ When one of those who sat at table with him heard this, he said to him, "Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!"

¹⁶ Then he said to him, "A certain man gave a great banquet and invited many. ¹⁷ And at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come, for all is now ready.'

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

¹⁹ And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.'

²⁰ Still another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'

²¹ So the servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in the poor and the maimed, the blind and the lame.'

²² And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.'

²³ Then the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. ²⁴ For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.'"