"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and love to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets??47 men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get all the heavier sentence!"

Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.

Blessed are the slaves whom their master will find on the watch when he comes. I tell you, he will gird up his robe and make them take their places at table, and go around and wait on them.

People will come from the east and west and the north and south, and take their places in the Kingdom of God.

He noticed that the guests picked out the best places, and he gave them this illustration: