Lucas 14

1 When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. 2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. 3 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"

4 But they were silent.

He took him, and healed him, and let him go. 5 He answered them, "Which of you, if your son*14:5 TR reads "donkey" instead of "son" or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"

6 They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.

7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, 8 "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, 9 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

12 He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. 13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; 14 and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."

15 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!"

16 But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people. 17 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ 18 They all as one began to make excuses.

"The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

19 "Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

20 "Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

21 "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

22 "The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’

23 "The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. For many are called, but few are chosen.*14:24 RP MT includes the last sentence. TR, NU, and FH MT omit: For many are called, but few are chosen.’"

25 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard*14:26 or, hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. 27 Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace. 33 So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

34 "Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? 35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Ka Whakaorangia e Īhu tētahi Tāne Turōrō

1 Ā, i tōna haerenga ki te whare o tētahi o ngā rangatira, he Parihi, ki te kai taro i te hāpati, nā titiro pū mai ana rātou ki a ia. 2 Nā, ko tētahi tangata i tōna aroaro, he kōpū tetere tōna mate. 3 Nā, ka oho a Īhu, ka kōrero ki ngā kaiwhakaako o te ture, ki ngā Parihi, ka mea, "He mea tika rānei te whakaora i te hāpati?" 4 Ā, kīhai rātou i kīkī. Nā, ka mau ia ki a ia, ā, whakaorangia ana, tukua ana kia haere.

5 Nā, ka whakahoki ia ki a rātou, ka mea, "Ki te taka te kāihe, te kau rānei, a tētahi o koutou ki te poka, e kore ianei e hūtia ake e ia i reira pū anō i te rā hāpati?" 6 Ā, kīhai i taea e rātou te utu ēnei kupu āna.

Te Whakaiti me te Manaaki

7 Nā, ka kōrerotia e ia tētahi kupu whakarite ki te hunga i karangatia, i tōna kitenga i a rātou e whiriwhiri ana i ngā nohoanga rangatira; i mea ia ki a rātou, 8 "Ki te karangatia koe e tētahi ki te mārena, kaua e noho ki te nohoanga rangatira, kei karangatia hoki e ia tētahi he nui atu i a koe, 9 ā, ka haere mai te tangata i karangatia ai kōrua, ka mea ki a koe, ‘Tukua he nohoanga mō tēnei,’ ā, ka whakamā koe, ka haere ki tō muri rawa nohoanga noho ai. 10 Engari, ka karangatia koe, haere, e noho ki tō muri rawa nohoanga. Mō te tae rawa mai o te tangata nāna koe i karanga, nā, ka mea ia ki a koe, ‘E hoa, neke ake.’ Ko reira hoki koe whai korōria ai i te aroaro o ngā tāngata e noho tahi ana koutou. 11 Ki te whakanui hoki tētahi i a ia, ka whakaititia; ki te whakaiti tētahi i a ia, ka whakanuia."

12 Nā, ka mea ia ki te tangata nāna nei ia i karanga, "E taka koe i te tina, i te hapa rānei, kaua e karangatia ōu hoa, kaua hoki ōu tēina, kaua hoki ōu whanaunga, kaua anō ngā tāngata taonga e noho tata ana; kei karangatia anō koe, ā, ka whai utu koe. 13 Engari, ka taka hākari koe, karangatia ngā rawakore, ngā hauā, ngā kopa, ngā matapō. 14 Ā, ka koa koe; kāhore hoki ā rātou utu ki a koe; engari, ka utua koe ā te aranga o te hunga tika."

Te Kupu Whakarite o te Hākari Nui

15 Ā, nō ka rongo tētahi o te hunga e noho tahi ana ki te kai ki ēnei mea, ka mea ki a ia, "Ka koa te tangata kai taro i te rangatiratanga o te Atua."

16 Nā, ka mea ia ki a ia, "I takā he hapa nui e tētahi tangata, ā, he tokomaha i karangatia. 17 Ā, ka tonoa tāna pononga i te hāora o te hapa, hei mea ki te hunga i karangatia, ‘Haere mai; kua rite hoki ngā mea katoa.’

18 "Nā, ka anga rātou katoa ka whakakāhore ngātahi. Ka mea tō mua ki a ia, ‘Kua hokona e ahau he māra, me haere ahau kia kite. E mea ana ahau ki a koe, kia tukua ahau kia whakakāhore.’

19 "Nā, ko te meatanga a tētahi, ‘E rima takirua ngā ōkiha kua hokona e ahau, ka haere ahau ki te whakamātau. E mea ana ahau ki a koe, kia tukua ahau kia whakakāhore.’

20 "I mea anō tētahi, ‘Kua mārenatia ahau ki te wahine. He mea tēnei e kore ai ahau e āhei te haere atu.’

21 "Ā, ko te haerenga mai o taua pononga, ka kōrerotia ēnei mea ki tōna rangatira, nā, ka riri te tangata i te whare, ka mea ki tāna pononga, ‘Hohoro te haere ki ngā ara, ki ngā huarahi o te pā, ārahina mai ki konei ngā rawakore, ngā ngongengonge, ngā matapō, me ngā kopa.’ 22 Nā, ka mea te pononga, ‘E kara, kua rite tāu i mea ai, ā, tēnei anō he wāhi takoto noa.’

23 "Ā, ka mea te rangatira ki te pononga, ‘Haere ki ngā huarahi, ki ngā taiepa, tōia mai ki roto nei, kia kī ai tōku whare. 24 Ko tāku kupu hoki tēnei ki a koutou, e kore tētahi o aua tāngata i karangatia rā e kai i tāku hapa.’ "

Te Utu o te Meanga hei Ākonga

25 Nā, he tini te tangata i haere tahi me ia, ā, ka tahuri ia, ka mea ki a rātou, 26 "Ki te haere mai tētahi ki ahau, ā, ka kore e whakakino ki tōna pāpā, whaea, wahine, tamariki, tēina, tuāhine, āe rā ki te ora anō mōna ake, e kore ia e āhei hei ākonga māku. 27 Ki te kore tētahi e mau ki tōna rīpeka, e haere mai i muri i ahau, e kore ia e āhei hei ākonga māku.

28 "Ko wai hoki o koutou, ki te mea ia ki te hanga taumaihi, e kore e mātua noho ki te tatau i ngā utu, mehemea e ranea ana āna mea hei whakaoti? 29 Kei whakatakoto ia i te tūranga, ka kore e taea te whakaoti, ā, ka tāwai mai ki a ia te hunga katoa e mātakitaki ana, 30 ka mea, ‘I tīmata te tangata nei te hanga whare, ā, kīhai i taea te i whakaoti.’

31 "Ko tēhea kīngi rānei e haere ana ki te whawhai ki tētahi atu kīngi, e kore e mātua noho, e whakaaro, e taea rānei e ia me ngā mano kotahi tekau te tū ki te riri ki tērā e haere mai rā ki a ia me ngā mano e rua tekau? 32 Ā, ki te kāhore, i te mea i tawhiti anō tērā, ka tukua atu e ia he karere, ka mea ki ngā kaupapa e houhia ai te rongo. 33 Waihoki, ko te tangata o koutou e kore e whakarere i āna mea katoa, e kore e āhei hei ākonga māku."

Tote Koretake

34 "Nō reira, he pai te tote; otirā ki te hemo te hā o te tote, mā te aha ka whai hā ai? 35 E kore e pai mō te whenua, e kore anō hei whakawairākau; ā, ka ākiritia ai e te tangata ki waho.

"Ko ia he taringa ōna hei whakarongo, kia rongo ia."