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.'
19. And another said: 'I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you to excuse me.'
20. And another said, 'I have taken a wife, and therefore I am not able to go.'
21. And returning, the servant reported these things to his lord. Then the father of the family, becoming angry, said to his servant: 'Go out quickly into the streets and neighborhoods of the city. And lead here the poor, and the disabled, and the blind, and the lame.'
22. And the servant said: 'It has been done, just as you ordered, lord, and there is still room.'
23. And the lord said to the servant: 'Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel them to enter, so that my house may be filled.
24. For I tell you, that none of those men who were invited will taste of my feast.' "
25. Now great crowds traveled with him. And turning around, he said to them:
26. "If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.
27. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.
28. For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?
29. Otherwise, after he will have laid the foundation and not been able to finish it, everyone who sees it may begin to mock him,