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Luke 14 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Luke chapter 14 It happened that when he went into the House of
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  one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat
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  bread, they were watching him closely, and there in front of
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  him was a man suffering from dropsy.
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  And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees,
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  saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?
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  That they kept silent. And he took hold of him and
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  healed him, and sent him away. And he said to them, Which one
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  of you will have a sun or an ox fall into a well, and will not
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  immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?
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  And they could make no reply to this.
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  And he began speaking a parable to the invited guest when he
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  noticed how they had been picking out the places of honour
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  at the table, saying to them, When you are invited by someone
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  to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honour for someone
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  more distinguished than you may have been invited by him.
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  And he who invited you both will come and say to you, give your
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  place to this man, and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy
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  the last place. But when you are invited, go and
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  recline at the last place, so that when the one who invites
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  you comes, he may say to you, Friend, move up higher.
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  Then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the
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  table with you. For everyone who exalts himself
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  will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
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  And he also went on to say to the one who had invited him,
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  When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your
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  friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors,
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  otherwise they may also invite you in return, and that will be
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  your repayment. But when you give a reception,
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  invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you
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  will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you,
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  for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.
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  When one of those who were reclining at the table with him
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  heard this, he said to him, Blessed is everyone who will eat
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  bread in the Kingdom of God. But he said to him, a man was
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  giving a big dinner and he invited many, and at the dinner
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  hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, come
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  for everything is ready now. But they all alike began to make
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  excuses. The first one said to him, I
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  have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it,
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  please consider me excused. Another one said I have bought 5
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  yoke of oxen and I am going to try them out, please consider me
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  excused. Another one said I have married
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  a wife and for that reason I cannot come.
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  And the slave came back and reported this to his master.
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  Then the head of the household became angry, and said to his
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  slave, Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city,
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  and bring in here the poor, and crippled, and blind and lame.
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  And the slave said, Master, what you commanded has been done, and
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  still there is room. The master said to the slave, Go
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  out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to
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  come in, so that my house may be filled.
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  For I tell you, none of none of those men who were invited shall
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  taste of my dinner. Now large crowds were going
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  along with him, and he turned and said to them, If anyone
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  comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and
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  wife, and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his
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  own life, he cannot be my disciple.
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  Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot
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  be my disciple. For which one of you, when he
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  wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the
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  cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
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  Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to
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  finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying This man
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  began to build and was not able to finish.
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  Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle,
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  will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong
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  enough with 10,000 men to encounter the thing coming
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  against him with 20,000. Or else, while the other is
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  still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of
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  peace. So then none of you can be my
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  disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.
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  Therefore salt is good. But if even salt has become
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  tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
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  It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile.
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  It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him
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  hear.