closely watching Him.
014:002 In front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
014:003 This led Jesus to ask the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it
allowable to cure people on the Sabbath?"
014:004 They gave Him no answer; so He took hold of the man, cured him,
and sent him away.
014:005 Then He turned to them and said, "Which of you shall have
a child or an ox fall into a well on the Sabbath day,
and will not immediately lift him out?"
014:006 To this they could make no reply.
014:007 Then, when He noticed that the invited guests chose the best seats,
He used this as an illustration and said to them,
014:008 "When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take
the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you
may have been asked,
014:009 and the man who invited you both will come and will say to you,
`Make room for this guest,' and then you, ashamed, will move
to the lowest place.
014:010 On the contrary, when you are invited go and take the lowest place,
that when your host comes round he may say to you, `My friend,
come up higher.' This will be doing you honour in the presence
of all the other guests.
014:011 For whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles
himself will be uplifted.
014:012 Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, "When you
give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends
or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps
they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.
014:013 But when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame,
and the blind;