1. IT OCCURRED one Sabbath, when [Jesus] went for a meal at the house of one of the ruling Pharisees, that they were [engaged in] watching Him [closely].
2. And behold, [just] in front of Him there was a man who had dropsy.
3. And Jesus asked the lawyers and the Pharisees, Is it lawful and right to cure on the Sabbath or not?
4. But they kept silent. Then He took hold [of the man] and cured him and sent him away.
5. And He said to them, Which of you, having a son or a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not at once pull him out on the Sabbath day?
6. And they were unable to reply to this.
7. Now He told a parable to those who were invited, [when] He noticed how they were selecting the places of honor, saying to them,
8. When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not recline on the chief seat [in the place of honor], lest a more distinguished person than you has been invited by him, [Prov. 25:6, 7.]
9. And he who invited both of you will come to you and say, Let this man have the place [you have taken]. Then, with humiliation and a guilty sense of impropriety, you will begin to take the lowest place.