Luke 14 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Healing of a Man on the Sabbath

Luk 14:1

Luk 14:1One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.

Luk 14:2

Luk 14:2And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.

Luk 14:3

Luk 14:3And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”

Luk 14:4

Luk 14:4But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away.

Luk 14:5

Luk 14:5And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son[fn] or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

Luk 14:6

Luk 14:6And they could not reply to these things.

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Luk 14:7

Luk 14:7Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,

Luk 14:8

Luk 14:8“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,

Luk 14:9

Luk 14:9and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.

Luk 14:10

Luk 14:10But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.

Luk 14:11

Luk 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

The Parable of the Great Banquet

Luk 14:12

Luk 14:12He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers[fn] or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

Luk 14:13

Luk 14:13But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

Luk 14:14

Luk 14:14and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

(Mat 22:1–14 )

Luk 14:15

Luk 14:15When 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!”

Luk 14:16

Luk 14:16But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.

Luk 14:17

Luk 14:17And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant[fn] to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

Luk 14:18

Luk 14:18But 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.’

Luk 14:19

Luk 14:19And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’

Luk 14:20

Luk 14:20And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

Luk 14:21

Luk 14:21So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

Luk 14:22

Luk 14:22And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’

Luk 14:23

Luk 14:23And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.

Luk 14:24

Luk 14:24For I tell you,[fn] none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’”

The Cost of Discipleship

(Mat 10:34–39 )

Luk 14:25

Luk 14:25Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,

Luk 14:26

Luk 14:26“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Luk 14:27

Luk 14:27Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Luk 14:28

Luk 14:28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Luk 14:29

Luk 14:29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

Luk 14:30

Luk 14:30saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Luk 14:31

Luk 14:31Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luk 14:32

Luk 14:32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

Luk 14:33

Luk 14:33So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Salt Without Taste Is Worthless

(Mat 5:13; Mar 9:50 )

Luk 14:34

Luk 14:34“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

Luk 14:35

Luk 14:35It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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ESV Footnotes

(14:5)

Some manuscripts a donkey

(14:12)

Or your brothers and sisters

(14:17)

Or bondservant; also verses 21 (twice), 22, 23

(14:24)

The Greek word for you here is plural

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