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

¹² He also said to his host, "When you give a dinner or supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back again and you get repaid. ¹³ No, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. ¹⁴ Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

¹⁵ Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!"

¹⁶ Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests. ¹⁷ At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.'

¹⁸ But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.'

¹⁹ The second said, 'I have bought five pair of oxen and I am going to try them. Pray consider me excused.'

²⁰ Another said, 'I have married a wife; that is why I cannot come.'

²¹ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was enraged, and said to his servant, 'Quick, go out to the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.'

²² When the servant announced, 'Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is still room,'

²³ the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, to fill up my house. ²⁴ For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my supper.'"