1 When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. 2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. 3 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
4 But they were silent.
He took him, and healed him, and let him go. 5 He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"
6 They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.
7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, 8 "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, 9 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."
12 He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. 13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; 14 and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."
15 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!"
16 But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people. 17 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ 18 They all as one began to make excuses.
"The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
19 "Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’
20 "Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’
21 "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’
22 "The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’
23 "The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’"
25 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. 27 Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace. 33 So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
34 "Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? 35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
1 在安息日， 耶稣进了一个法利赛人领袖的家里吃饭， 众人都在窥探他。
2 正好在他面前有一个患水臌病的人；
3 耶稣对律法师和法利赛人说： "在安息日治病， 可以不可以呢？"
4 他们却不出声。耶稣扶着病人， 治好他， 叫他走了，
5 就对他们说： "你们中间谁的儿子或牛在安息日掉在井里， 不立刻把他拉上来呢？"
6 他们不能回答这些话。
7 耶稣看见被邀请的客人选择高位， 就用比喻对他们说：
8 "你被邀请参加婚筵的时候， 不要自己坐在高位上， 恐怕有比你更尊贵的客人也被请来；
9 那请你又请他的人过来对你说： ‘请你让位给这个人。’那时你就惭愧地退居末位了。
10 你被邀请的时候， 要坐在末位上， 等请你的人过来对你说： ‘朋友， 请上座。’那时你在同席的人面前才有光彩。
11 因为凡高抬自己的， 必要降卑； 自己谦卑的， 必要升高。"
12 耶稣又对邀请他的人说： "你设午餐或晚宴， 不要请你的朋友、弟兄、亲戚或富裕的邻舍， 恐怕他又回请你， 你就得了报答。
13 你摆筵席的时候， 总要邀请那贫穷的、残废的、瘸腿的、瞎眼的，
14 那你就有福了。因为他们没有什么可以报答你， 义人复活的时候， 你必定得着报答。"
15 一起吃饭的人中有一个， 听了这些话， 就对耶稣说： "在 神的国里吃饭的人有福了。"
16 耶稣对他说： "有一个人大摆筵席， 请了许多客人。
17 到了开席的时候， 他打发仆人去对所请的人说： ‘请来吧！ 样样都准备好了。’
18 众人一致推辞， 头一个说： ‘我买了一块地， 不得不去看一看， 请原谅我。’
19 另一个说： ‘我买了五对牛， 要去试一试， 请原谅我。’
20 又一个说： ‘我刚结了婚， 不能去。’
21 仆人回来把这些事告诉他主人， 家主就发怒， 对仆人说： ‘快到城里大街小巷去， 把贫穷的、残废的、瞎眼的、瘸腿的， 都领到这里来。’
22 仆人说： ‘主啊， 你所吩咐的已经办了， 还有空位。’
23 主人就对仆人说： ‘你出去到路边篱畔， 勉强人进来， 好把我的屋子坐满。
24 我告诉你们， 先前请的那些人， 一个也不得尝我的筵席。’"
25 有许多人与耶稣同行， 他转身对他们说：
26 "如果有人到我这里来， 爱我不超过爱（"爱我不超过爱"原文作"不恨"）自己的父母、妻子、儿女、兄弟、姊妹， 甚至自己的性命， 就不能作我的门徒。
27 凡不背着自己的十字架跟随我的， 也不能作我的门徒。
28 你们当中有谁要盖一座楼， 不先坐下计算费用， 能不能盖成呢？
29 恐怕安了地基， 而不能完成， 所有看见的人都讥笑他，
30 说： ‘这个人开了工， 却不能完工。’
31 或者一个王去和别的王打仗， 哪有不先坐下想想， 能否用一万兵去抵抗那领两万来攻打他的呢？
32 如果不能， 就该趁对方还远的时候， 派使者去谈判和平的条件。
33 这样， 你们中间不论谁， 如果不撇下一切所有的， 就不能作我的门徒。
34 "盐本来是好的， 但如果失了味， 怎能使它再咸呢？
35 或用在田里， 或放在粪里， 都不合适； 只好扔在外面。有耳可听的， 就应当听。"