He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.'"

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.