"But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not! You are of more value than many sparrow!

Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.

"'For I tell you that not one of those invited guests shall taste my supper.'"

"When he came to himself he said: "'How many of my father's hired men have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing of hunger!

He gave them a cup in like manner, after supper saying. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, poured out for your sake.