MODERN LITERAL VERSION

14:1 And it happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were observing him.
14:2 And behold, there was in front of him a certain man having dropsy.
14:3 And answering Jesus spoke to the professors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it legal to heal on the Sabbath?
14:4 But they were quiet. And he took him and healed him and dismissed him.
14:5 And answering, he said to them, Which one of you* if a son or a bull will fall into a well and you* will not immediately pull him up on the Sabbath day?
14:6 And they are not strong-enough to answer back to him as to these things.

14:7 And he spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he took-heed of how they chose out the foremost-places; saying to them:
14:8 Whenever you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not recline in the foremost seat; lest a more admired man than you may have been invited by him,
14:9 and he who invited you and him will come and say to you, Give this man your place, and then you may begin with shame to hold the last place.
14:10 But whenever you are invited, go and lean-back in the last place; that* whenever he who has invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go higher toward me and then you will have glory before those who recline at the table with you.
14:11 Because everyone who is exalting himself will be humbled, and he who is humbling himself will be exalted.

14:12 And he said to him who had also invited him, Whenever you make* a meal or a supper, do not summon your friends, nor your brethren, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors; lest they may also invite you too and it might become a repayment for you.
14:13 But whenever you make* a banquet, invite the poor, the disabled, the lame, the blind;
14:14 and you will be fortunate, because they do not have anything in which to repay you; for* you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.

14:15 And when one of those who reclined at the meal with him heard these things, he said to him, He who will eat bread in the kingdom of God is fortunate.
14:16 But he said to him, A certain man made* a large supper, and he invited many;
14:17 and he sent forth his bondservant in the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, because all things are already prepared.
14:18 And they all with one desire began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought a field and I have a necessity to go out and to see it; I request of you, have me excused.
14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of bulls and I must go to test them; I request you have me excused.
14:20 And another said, I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come.
14:21 And that bondservant came and reported to his lord these things. Then the householder being angry said to his bondservant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring the poor and disabled and lame and blind in here.
14:22 And the bondservant said, Lord, it has happened as you commanded and there is still more places.
14:23 And the lord said to the bondservant, Go out into the roads and over the fences and urge them to come in, that* my house may be filled.
14:24 For* I say to you* that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. For* many are invited but few chosen.

14:25 Now there traveled together with him large crowds and he turned and said to them,
14:26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and also, still his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
14:27 And whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
14:28 For* which out of you*, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, if he has the means toward its completion?
14:29 Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not strong-enough to finish, all who view it may begin to mock him,
14:30 saying, This man began to build and was not strong-enough to finish.
14:31 Or what king, as he is going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and counsel if he is able with ten-thousand to meet him who is coming against him with twenty thousand?
14:32 Otherwise while he is still faraway, having sent an ambassador, he asks for the terms of peace.
14:33 Therefore, so everyone out of you* who does not bid farewell to all that he possesses, he is not able to be my disciple.
14:34 The salt is good, but if the salt is flavorless, what shall it be seasoned with?
14:35 It is fit neither *for the soil nor *for the manure-pile. Cast it outside. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.