Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.

"A man once gave a great dinner," replied Jesus, "to which he invited a large number of guests.

At dinner-time he sent his servant to announce to those who had been invited, "'Come, for things are now ready.'

For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my dinner.'"

and will not rather say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?

"Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;