¹³ Instead, when you give a ·feast [banquet], invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. ¹⁴ Then you will be blessed, because they have nothing and cannot pay you back [^Csomething given was typically repaid with goods, favors, or honor]. ·But [For] you will be repaid ·when the good people rise from the dead [^Lat the resurrection of the righteous].”

A Story About a Big Banquet^(A)

¹⁵ One of those ·at the table [^Lreclining; see 5:29] with Jesus heard these things and said to him, “·Blessed [Happy] are the people who will ·share in the meal [^Leat bread] in God’s kingdom [^Can allusion to the messianic banquet at the end of time; see 13:29; Is. 25:6–8].”