11. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
12. He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.
13. But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
14. Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
15. When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!”
16. But Jesus said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.
17. At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’
18. But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’
19. Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’