Jesus told a parable. He said, When you are invited to a wedding, do
not sit down in the highest room; lest one more honorable than you has
been invited. The host would have to come and tell you the room was
for someone else and, with shame, you move to the lowest room.
Instead, sit down in the lowest room. Then the host may come to you
and say, Friend, go up higher. You will, then, have the respect of the
other guests. Whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he who
humbles himself shall be exalted.
Then Jesus said to his host, When you make a dinner or a supper, do
not call your friends, or your brethren, or kinsmen, or rich
neighbors; lest they also invite you in return, and you incur an
obligation. When you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the
lame, the blind. You will be blessed because they cannot repay you;
you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.
When one of them that sat at the table with Jesus heard these things,
he said, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Then Jesus told another parable.
He said, A man made a great supper and invited many people. When it
was supper time he sent his servant to say to those who were invited,
Come. All things are now ready. One after another, each one made an
excuse.
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