⁷ He also spoke a parable to the guests when He noted how they selected the chief seats at the table, and said to them,

⁸ “When you shall be invited by anyone to a wedding, do not sit yourself down in the place of honor, lest a more honorable than you be invited.

⁹ “And the one who invited both you and him comes and says to you, ‘Give this man that place.’ And then you begin (with shame) to take the lowest place.

¹⁰ “But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place. So that when the one who invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, sit up higher.’ Then you shall have honor in the presence of those who sit at table with you.

¹¹ “For whoever exalts himself, shall be brought low. And the one who humbles himself, shall be exalted.”

¹² Then He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or the rich neighbors, so that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made to you.

¹³ “But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

¹⁴ “And you shall be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you shall be recompensed at the Resurrection of the Just.”