Luke 14:15-24 - The Parable Of The Large Banquet
15 One of the guests heard what he said and exclaimed: "Happy will he be who shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God!"
16 But Jesus said to him: "A man was once giving a great dinner. He invited many people, 17 And sent his servant, when it was time for the dinner, to say to those who had been invited 'Come, for everything is now ready.'
18 They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first man said to the servant 'I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.'
19 The next said 'I have bought five pairs of bullocks, and I am on my way to try them. I must ask you to consider me excused';
20 While the next said 'I am just married, and for that reason I am unable to come.'
21 On his return the servant told his master all these answers. Then in anger the owner of the house said to his servant 'Go out at once into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the blind, and the lame.'
22 Presently the servant said 'Sir, your order has been carried out, and still there is room.'
23 'Go out,' the master said, 'into the roads and hedgerows, and make people come in, so that my house may be filled; 24 For I tell you all that not one of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.'"