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, and the one who invited you both[c] will come and[d] say to you, ‘Give the place to this person,’ and then with shame you will begin to take the last place.

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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”
  3. Luke 14:9 Literally “and him”
  4. Luke 14:9 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“will come”) has been translated as a finite verb