Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them.

"and be yourselves like men who are looking for the Lord, on his return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they may at once open the door for him.

People will come from East and West, and from North and South, and take their places at the banquet in the Kingdom of God.

"When you are invited by any one to a wedding banquet, do not seat yourself in the best place, for fear that some one of higher rank should have been invited by your host;

And he also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you [in return], and repayment come to you.

But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

One of the other guests heard this, and said to him, "Blessed is the man who shall be at the banquet in the Kingdom of God!"

But he said to him, "A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.

And he sent his slave at the hour of the banquet to say to those who have been invited, 'Come, because now it is ready!'

For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!'"

"There was once a rich man who habitually arrayed himself in purple and fine linen, and enjoyed a splendid banquet every day,