13. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;
14. blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
15. One of his fellow guests on hearing this said to him, “Blessed is the one who will dine in the kingdom of God.”
16. He replied to him, “A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many.
17. When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’
18. But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.’