10. But when you are invited, go, sit down in the lowest place, so that, when he who invited you arrives, he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will have glory in the sight of those who sit at table together with you.
11. For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted."
12. Then he also said to the one who had invited him: "When you prepare a lunch or dinner, do not choose to call your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps they might then invite you in return and repayment would made to you.
13. But when you prepare a feast, call the poor, the disabled, the lame, and the blind.
14. And you will be blessed because they do not have a way to repay you. So then, your recompense will be in the resurrection of the just."
15. When someone sitting at table with him had heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will eat bread in the kingdom of God."
16. So he said to him: "A certain man prepared a great feast, and he invited many.
17. And he sent his servant, at the hour of the feast, to tell the invited to come; for now everything was ready.
18. And at once they all began to make excuses. The first said to him: 'I bought a farm, and I need to go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.'