And it happened that when he entered the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees to eat bread on the day of the Sabbath, they were watching him.

And look, a certain man who was swollen with water was before him.

And Y'shua answered and said to the scribes and to the Pharisees: Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?

But they kept silent. And he took hold of him and healed him and let him go.

And he said to them: Which of you, if his son or his ox falls into a pit on the day of the Sabbath, will not at once pull him up?

And they could not give him an answer about this.

And he was speaking a parable to those who were invited there, because he saw them choosing the places of the head of the couch.

When you are invited by someone to a house of feasting, do not go recline for yourself at the head of the couch, lest someone more honored than you be invited there,

and the one who invited you and him come and say to you, Give place to this one, and you be ashamed as you stand and take the last place.

But when you are invited, go recline for yourself in the last couch, so that when the one who invited you comes, he may say to you, My friend, come up higher and recline. And you will have glory before all who recline with you.

Because everyone who lifts up his soul will be brought low, and everyone who brings his soul low will be lifted up.

And he said also to the one who had invited him, When you make a meal or a supper, do not be inviting your friends, nor your brothers or your relatives, and not your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you and this repayment be yours.

But when you make a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

And you will be blessed, for they have nothing with which to repay you; for your repayment will be in the resurrection of the righteous.

And when one of those reclining heard these things, he said to him: Blessed is he who will eat bread in the kingdom of Elohim.

Y'shua said to him: A certain man made a great supper and invited many.

And he sent his servant at the time of the supper to say to those who were invited: Everything is ready for you; come.

And they all began, as one, to excuse themselves. The first said to him: I have bought a field, and I am constrained to go out and see it. I ask of you, allow me to be excused.

Another said, I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask of you, excuse me, for I am excused.

And another said, I took a wife, and because of this I cannot come.

And that servant came and said to his master these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to his servant, Go out quickly to the streets and to the lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the afflicted and the lame and the blind.

And the servant said, My master, it is as you commanded, and still there is room.

And the master said to his servant, Go out to the roads and to the hedges and compel them to enter, so that my house may be filled.

For I say to you that not one of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.

And when great crowds were going with him, he turned and said to them:

Whoever comes to me and does not hate his father and his mother and his brothers and his sisters and his wife and his children and even his own life cannot be a disciple to me.

And whoever does not take up his cross and come after me cannot be a disciple to me.

For which of you who wants to build a tower does not first sit down and count its cost, whether he has enough to finish it?

so that when he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will mock him,

and say, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Or what king goes to battle to fight with another king and does not first consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

And if not, while he is still far from him, he sends an envoy and seeks peace.

So everyone of you who does not leave all his possessions cannot be a disciple to me.

Salt is good; but if the salt itself becomes bland, with what will it be salted?

It is fit neither for the earth nor for the dunghill. They throw it out. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.