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.’
20. And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’