And Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining for the meal with them.

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,

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!'"