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(Luke 14:12-24) He said also to the man who had invited him, \u201cWhen you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.<\/span> But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,<\/span> and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, \u201cBlessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!\u201d But he said to him, \u201cA man once gave a great banquet and invited many.<\/span> And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, \u2018Come, for everything is now ready.\u2019<\/span> But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, \u2018I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.\u2019<\/span> And another said, \u2018I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.\u2019<\/span> And another said, \u2018I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.\u2019<\/span> So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, \u2018Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.\u2019<\/span> And the servant said, \u2018Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.\u2019<\/span> And the master said to the servant, \u2018Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.<\/span> For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Luke 14:12-24) He said also to the man who had invited him, \u201cWhen you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}