3. And responding, Jesus spoke to the experts in the law and to the Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?"
4. But they kept silent. Yet truly, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.
5. And responding to them, he said, "Which of you will have a donkey or an ox fall into a pit, and will not promptly pull him out, on the day of the Sabbath?"
6. And they were unable to respond to him about these things.
7. Then he also told a parable, to those who were invited, noticing how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:
8. "When you are invited to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest perhaps someone more honored than yourself may have been invited by him.
9. And then he who called both you and him, approaching, may say to you, 'Give this place to him.' And then you would begin, with shame, to take the last place.
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.'
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.'