Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God.

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

But Jesus said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, because everything is now ready.'

For I tell you, not one of those individuals who were invited will taste my banquet!'"