10. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
11. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
12. He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothersor your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.
13. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
14. and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
15. When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
16. But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.
17. And at the time for the banquet he sent his servantto say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’
18. But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’
19. And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’