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.’