Luke 14:13

Luke 14:13

11 ^aFor whoever exalts himself will be¹ humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

12 Then He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

13 But when you give a feast, invite ^athe poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

14 And you will be ^ablessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

The Parable of the Great Supper

15 Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, ^a“Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!”

16 ^aThen He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many,

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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When thou makest a feast (otan doxhn poihv). otan and the present subjunctive in an indefinite temporal clause. Doxh means reception as in Luke 5:29, late word, only in these two passages in the N.T. Note absence of article with these adjectives in the Greek (poor people, maimed folks, lame people, blind people).

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 14:13:**

Luke 5:29
John 12:5
2 Corinthians 8:2

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