2. There before Him was a man who had edema.
3. Jesus said to the lawyers and Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
4. But they remained silent. So He took him and healed him, and let him go.
5. Then He said, “Which of you having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”
6. And they could not answer Him regarding these things.
7. When He marked how they chose the seats of honor, He told a parable to those who were invited, saying to them,
8. “When you are invited by any man to a wedding banquet, do not sit down in a seat of honor, lest a more honorable man than you be invited by him;
9. and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give this man the seat,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest seat.
10. But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest seat, so that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have respect in the presence of those who sit at dinner with you.
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.’