12. And he also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and repayment come to you.
13. But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
14. and you will be blessed, because they are not able to repay you. For it will be paid back to you at the resurrection of the righteous.”
15. Now when one of those reclining at the 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 certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.
17. And he sent his slave at the hour of the banquet to say to those who have been invited, ‘Come, because now it is ready!’
18. And they all alike began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field, and I must go out to look at it. I ask you, consider me excused.’
19. And another said, ‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you, consider me excused.’
20. And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and for this reason I am not able to come.’