11. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
12. Then He said also to the one who invited Him, “When you prepare a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid.
13. But when you prepare a banquet, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,
14. and you will be blessed, for they cannot repay you. You shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
15. When one of those who sat at dinner with Him heard this, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
16. Then He said to him, “A man prepared a banquet and invited many,
17. and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now prepared.’
18. “But they all with one mind began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land, and I must go and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’
19. “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to prove them. I ask you to excuse me.’
20. “Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
21. “The servant came and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in anger said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’
22. “The servant said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and yet there is room.’