10. But when you are invited, go and recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you.
11. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
12. And he also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and repayment come to you.
13. But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
14. and you will be blessed, because they are not able to repay you. For it will be paid back to you at the resurrection of the righteous.”
15. Now when one of those reclining at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
16. But he said to him, “A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.