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Themes in Luke 14
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Themes in Luke 14

Luke 14:1

One Sabbath, when He went to take a meal at the house of a Pharisee who was a member of the council, they continued to watch Him closely.

Luke 14:2

Just in front of Him was a man who was suffering from dropsy.

Luke 14:3

He answered the experts in the law and the Pharisees by asking, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"

Luke 14:4

But they made no answer. So He took hold of the man and cured him and sent him away.

Luke 14:5

Then He said to them, "Which of you, if his son or ox falls into a well, will not at once pull him out on the Sabbath?"

Luke 14:6

But they could make no reply to this.

Luke 14:7

When He noticed how the guests were picking out the best places, He told them the following story:

Luke 14:8

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding supper, never take the best place, for someone of greater distinction than you may have been invited,

Luke 14:9

so that your host may not come and say to you, 'Make room for this man'; and then in embarrassment you will proceed to take and keep the lowest place.

Luke 14:10

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he may say to you, 'My friend, come up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow-guests.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

Luke 14:12

Then He proceeded to say to the man who invited Him: "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, stop the social custom of inviting your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, for they may invite you in return and so you will be repaid.

Luke 14:13

But when you give a reception, make it your habit to invite people that are poor, maimed, crippled, or blind.

Luke 14:14

Then you will be happy, because they cannot repay you; you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."

Luke 14:15

But one of the fellow-guests heard this, and said to Him, "Happy will be the man who is fortunate enough to be at the feast in the kingdom of God."

Luke 14:16

Then Jesus said to him: "Once a man was giving a great dinner and invited many people to it.

Luke 14:17

And at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to the invited guests, 'Come, for it is now ready.'

Luke 14:18

But they all in the same attitude began to excuse themselves. The first one said, 'I have just bought a piece of land and I must go and look it over. Please excuse me.'

Luke 14:19

Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them. Please excuse me.'

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Another said, 'I have just gotten married, and so I cannot come.'

Luke 14:21

So the slave returned and reported these answers to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, 'Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor, the maimed, the crippled, and the blind.'

Luke 14:22

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

Luke 14:23

"Then the master said to his slave, 'Go out on the roads and by the hedges and make the people come in, so that my house may be filled.

Luke 14:24

For I tell you, not one of those people who were invited shall get a taste of my dinner!'"

Luke 14:25

Now great crowds were going along with Him, and all at once He turned 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 still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Luke 14:27

Whoever does not persevere in carrying his own cross and thus following after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

Luke 14:28

"What man among you, if he wishes to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see whether he has money enough to complete it?

Luke 14:29

Lest, perchance, after he has laid the foundation but cannot complete the building, all who see it begin to make sport of him,

Luke 14:30

and say, 'This fellow started to erect a building but could not complete it!'

Luke 14:31

"Or what king, when he is going to make an attack on another king, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand soldiers to meet the other king who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:32

And if he cannot, while the other is still far away, he sends envoys and asks for terms of peace.

Luke 14:33

"Just so, no one of you who does not forsake everything that he has, can be a disciple of mine.

Luke 14:34

Salt is good, but if salt itself loses its strength, how can that strength be restored?

Luke 14:35

It is fit for neither soil nor manure. People throw it away. Let him who has ears to hear with give heed!"
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