And they were not able to make a reply to these things.

The Parable of the Guests at the Wedding Feast

Now he told a parable to those who had been invited when he[a] noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them, “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast,[b] do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you has been invited by him,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 14:7 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“noticed”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Luke 14:8 Or perhaps simply “a feast”