Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Entertainments » Guests at » Arranged according to rank
But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
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Feasts » Ancient customs at » Men alone present at
For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.'"
Verse Concepts
But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his high officers and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
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Feasts » Rank
"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.