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Themes in Luke 14
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Themes in Luke 14

Luke 14:1

And it happened that when he came to the house of a certain one of the leaders of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat {a meal}, they were watching him closely.

Luke 14:2

And behold, a certain man was in front of him, suffering from edema.

Luke 14:3

And Jesus answered [and] said to the legal experts and Pharisees, saying, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"

Luke 14:4

But they remained silent. And he took hold of [him] [and] healed him, and sent [him] away.

Luke 14:5

And he said to them, "Who among you, [if your] son or [your] ox falls into a well on the day of the Sabbath, will not immediately pull him out?"

Luke 14:6

And they were not able to make a reply to these [things].

Luke 14:7

Now he told a parable to those who had been invited [when he] noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them,

Luke 14:8

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest [someone] more distinguished than you has been invited by him,

Luke 14:9

and the one who invited you {both} will come [and] say to you, 'Give the place to this person,' and then with shame you will begin to take the last place.

Luke 14:10

But when you are invited, go [and] recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

Luke 14:12

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.

Luke 14:13

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

Luke 14:14

and you will be blessed, because they are not able to repay you. For it will be paid back to you at the resurrection of the righteous."

Luke 14:15

Now [when] one of those reclining at the table with [him] heard these [things], he said to him, "Blessed [is] {everyone who} will eat bread in the kingdom of God!"

Luke 14:16

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

Luke 14:17

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!'

Luke 14:18

And they all {alike} began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, 'I have purchased a field, and {I must} go out to look at it. I ask you, consider me excused.'

Luke 14:19

And another said, 'I have purchased five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you, consider me excused.'

Luke 14:20

And another said, 'I have married a wife, and for this [reason] I am not able to come.'

Luke 14:21

And the slave came [and] reported these [things] to his master. Then the master of the house became angry [and] said to his slave, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame!'

Luke 14:22

And the slave said, 'Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.'

Luke 14:23

And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and press [them] to come in, so that my house will be filled!

Luke 14:24

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

Luke 14:25

Now large crowds were going along with him, and he turned around [and] said to them,

Luke 14:26

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.

Luke 14:27

Whoever does not carry his own cross and {follow} me {cannot be} my disciple.

Luke 14:28

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down [and] calculate the cost [to see] if he has [enough] {to complete it}?

Luke 14:29

{Otherwise} [after] he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish [it], all who see [it] will begin to ridicule him,

Luke 14:30

saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

Luke 14:32

But if not, [while] [the other] is still far away, he sends an ambassador [and] asks {for terms of} peace.

Luke 14:33

In the [same] way, therefore, every [one] of you who does not renounce all his own possessions {cannot be} my disciple.

Luke 14:34

"Now salt [is] good, but if salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be made salty?

Luke 14:35

It is usable neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; they throw it out. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
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