If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you,`Give this man your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.
But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you,`Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honoured in the presence of all your fellow guests.
Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbours; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
"The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant,`Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.'
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple.
"Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?