Luke 14 Free Bible Version
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1 One Sabbath Jesus went to have a meal at the home of one of the leaders of the Pharisees where they watched him closely.
1 Y ACONTECIÓ que entrando en casa de un príncipe de los Fariseos un sábado á comer pan, ellos le acechaban.
2 A man was there whose arms and legs were swollen.
2 Y he aquí un hombre hidrópico estaba delante de él.
3 So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, “Does the law allow healing on the Sabbath, or not?”
3 Y respondiendo Jesús, habló á los doctores de la ley y á los Fariseos, diciendo: ¿Es lícito sanar en sábado?
4 But they kept quiet. Jesus touched the man, healed him, and sent him on his way.
4 Y ellos callaron. Entonces él tomándole, le sanó, y despidióle.
5 Then Jesus said to them, “If your son or your ox happened to fall into a well on the Sabbath, wouldn't you go and pull him out immediately?”
5 Y respondiendo á ellos dijo: ¿El asno ó el buey de cuál de vosotros caerá en [algún] pozo, y no lo sacará luego en día de sábado?
6 They weren't able to give an answer.
6 Y no le podían replicar á estas cosas.
7 So he told a story to the guests, noticing how they'd chosen to sit in places of honor.
7 Y observando cómo escogían los primeros asientos á la mesa, propuso una parábola á los convidados, diciéndoles:
8 “When you're invited to a wedding reception, don't take the place of honor, because someone more important than you may have been invited,” he began.
8 Cuando fueres convidado de alguno á bodas, no te sientes en el primer lugar, no sea que otro más honrado que tú esté por él convidado,
9 “Your host who invited you both will come and tell you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then in embarrassment you'll have to move to whatever place is left.
9 Y viniendo el que te llamó á ti y á él, te diga: Da lugar á éste: y entonces comiences con vergüenza á tener el lugar último.
10 Instead, when you're invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he'll tell you, ‘My friend, please move to a better seat.’ Then you'll be honored before all the guests sitting with you.
10 Mas cuando fueres convidado, ve, y siéntate en el postrer lugar; porque cuando viniere el que te llamó, te diga: Amigo, sube arriba: entonces tendrás gloria delante de los que juntamente se asientan á la mesa.
11 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
11 Porque cualquiera que se ensalza, será humillado; y el que se humilla, será ensalzado.
12 Then he said to the man who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, for they may invite you back, and then you'd be repaid.
12 Y dijo también al que le había convidado: Cuando haces comida ó cena, no llames á tus amigos, ni á tus hermanos, ni á tus parientes, ni á vecinos ricos; porque también ellos no te vuelvan á convidar, y te sea hecha compensación.
13 Instead, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,
13 Mas cuando haces banquete, llama á los pobres, los mancos, los cojos, los ciegos;
14 and you will be blessed, for they have nothing to repay you with, and you'll be rewarded at the resurrection of the good.”
14 Y serás bienaventurado; porque no te pueden retribuir; mas te será recompensado en la resurrección de los justos.
15 When one of them eating at the table with Jesus heard this, he said to Jesus, “How wonderful it will be for those who feast in the kingdom of God!”
15 Y oyendo esto uno de los que juntamente estaban sentados á la mesa, le dijo: Bienaventurado el que comerá pan en el reino de los cielos.
16 “Once there was a man who prepared a great banquet, and invited many guests,” Jesus replied.
16 El entonces le dijo: Un hombre hizo una grande cena, y convidó á muchos.
17 “When it was time to eat he sent his servant out to tell everyone who had been invited, ‘Come, because the banquet's ready.’
17 Y á la hora de la cena envió á su siervo á decir á los convidados: Venid, que ya está todo aparejado.
18 But they all started to make excuses. The first said, ‘I've just bought a field and I have to go and see it. Please excuse me.’
18 Y comenzaron todos á una á excusarse. El primero le dijo: He comprado una hacienda, y necesito salir y verla; te ruego que me des por excusado.
19 Another said, ‘I've just bought five pairs of oxen and have to go and try them out. Please excuse me.’ Still another said,
19 Y el otro dijo: He comprado cinco yuntas de bueyes, y voy á probarlos; ruégote que me des por excusado.
20 ‘I've just got married, so I can't come.’
20 Y el otro dijo: Acabo de casarme, y por tanto no puedo ir.
21 The servant returned and told his master what they'd said. The home-owner became angry and told his servant, ‘Quickly, go out into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’
21 Y vuelto el siervo, hizo saber estas cosas á su señor. Entonces enojado el padre de la familia, dijo á su siervo: Ve presto por las plazas y por las calles de la ciudad, y mete acá los pobres, los mancos, y cojos, y ciegos.
22 Then the servant said, ‘Master, I did what you told me, but there are still empty places.’
22 Y dijo el siervo: Señor, hecho es como mandaste, y aun hay lugar.
23 So the master told the servant, ‘Go out on the country roads and lanes, and make people come—I want my house to be full.
23 Y dijo el señor al siervo: Ve por los caminos y por los vallados, y fuérza[los] á entrar, para que se llene mi casa.
24 I tell you, not a single one of those people I invited will get a taste of my banquet.’”
24 Porque os digo que ninguno de aquellos hombres que fueron llamados, gustará mi cena.
25 A large crowd was accompanying Jesus. He turned to them and said,
25 Y muchas gentes iban con él; y volviéndose les dijo:
26 “If you want to follow me but you don't hate your father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters—even your own life—you can't be my disciple.
26 Si alguno viene á mí, y no aborrece á su padre, y madre, y mujer, é hijos, y hermanos, y hermanas, y aun también su vida, no puede ser mi discípulo.
27 If you don't carry your cross and follow me, you can't be my disciple.
27 Y cualquiera que no trae su cruz, y viene en pos de mí, no puede ser mi discípulo.
28 If you planned to build a tower, wouldn't you first work out how much it would cost, and see if you had enough money to complete it?
28 Porque ¿cuál de vosotros, queriendo edificar una torre, no cuenta primero sentado los gastos, si tiene lo que necesita para acabarla?
29 Otherwise, if after laying the foundation you weren't able to finish it, everyone who saw it would laugh at you, saying,
29 Porque después que haya puesto el fundamento, y no pueda acabarla, todos los que [lo] vieren, no comiencen á hacer burla de él,
30 ‘Look at him: he started building but he couldn't finish.’
30 Diciendo: Este hombre comenzó á edificar, y no pudo acabar.
31 What king goes to war with another king without first sitting down with his advisors to work out whether he and his ten thousand can defeat the one marching against him with twenty thousand?
31 ¿O cuál rey, habiendo de ir á hacer guerra contra otro rey, sentándose primero no consulta si puede salir al encuentro con diez mil al que viene contra él con veinte mil?
32 If he can't, he'll send representatives to ask for peace while the other king is still a long way off.
32 De otra manera, cuando aun el otro está lejos, le ruega por la paz, enviándo[le] embajada.
33 In the same way every one of you who doesn't give up everything can't be my disciple.
33 Así pues, cualquiera de vosotros que no renuncia á todas las cosas que posee, no puede ser mi discípulo.
34 Salt is good, but if it loses its taste, how can you make it salty again?
34 Buena es la sal; mas si aun la sal fuere desvanecida, ¿con qué se adobará?
35 It's no good for the soil or for fertilizer—you just toss it out. Whoever has ears, then listen!”
35 Ni para la tierra, ni para el muladar es buena; fuera la arrojan. Quien tiene oídos para oir, oiga.
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Mark 3:2; Psalm 62:4; Luke 20:20; Proverbs 23:7; Luke 6:7
- 3 Luke 6:9; Matthew 12:10; Mark 3:4; Luke 13:14–16; John 7:23
- 4 Matthew 22:46; Matthew 21:25–27
- 5 Luke 13:15; Exodus 23:4–5; Matthew 12:11–12
- 6 Luke 20:40; Acts 6:10; Luke 20:26; Luke 21:15; Luke 13:17
- 7 Philippians 2:3; Luke 11:43; Matthew 23:6; Luke 20:46; Mark 12:38–39
- 8 Proverbs 25:6–7
- 9 Proverbs 16:18; Proverbs 11:2; Proverbs 3:35; Esther 6:6–12; Ezekiel 28:2–10
- 10 Proverbs 25:6–7; Proverbs 15:33; Isaiah 60:14; Revelation 3:9; 1 Samuel 15:17
- 11 Luke 18:14; Matthew 23:12; Proverbs 29:23; James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5
- 12 James 2:1–6; Matthew 5:46; Proverbs 22:16; Luke 6:32–36; Proverbs 14:20
- 13 Luke 14:21; Isaiah 58:10; Proverbs 14:31; Isaiah 58:7; Job 29:15–16
- 14 Proverbs 19:17; Acts 24:15; John 5:29; Matthew 6:4; Matthew 25:34–40
- 15 Revelation 19:9; Luke 22:30; Luke 13:29; Matthew 25:10; Matthew 8:11
- 16 Matthew 22:2–14; Revelation 22:17; Isaiah 55:1–7; Luke 14:16–24; Isaiah 25:6–7
- 17 Proverbs 9:1–5; John 7:37; Matthew 22:3–4; Luke 3:4–6; Matthew 10:1–4
- 18 Luke 18:24; Luke 17:26–31; 1 Timothy 6:9–10; Isaiah 29:11–12; Acts 18:5–6
- 20 Deuteronomy 24:5; 1 Corinthians 7:33; Luke 18:29–30; Luke 14:26–28; 1 Corinthians 7:29–31
- 21 Luke 14:13; Matthew 11:5; Luke 14:24; Matthew 22:7–8; Hebrews 2:3
- 22 John 14:2; 1 Timothy 2:5–6; Colossians 2:9; Ephesians 3:8; Revelation 7:4–9
- 23 Matthew 22:9–10; Colossians 1:28; 2 Corinthians 5:11; Acts 13:47–48; 2 Timothy 4:2
- 24 Matthew 21:43; Acts 13:46; Matthew 22:8; John 3:36; John 8:24
- 25 John 6:24–27
- 26 Matthew 10:37; John 12:25; Philippians 3:8; Acts 20:24; Psalm 73:25–26
- 27 Matthew 10:38; Luke 9:23–25; Mark 10:21; Matthew 16:24–26; Mark 8:34–37
- 28 Proverbs 24:27; Matthew 10:22; Joshua 24:19–24; Luke 14:33; Acts 21:13
- 30 Hebrews 6:11; 2 John 8; Hebrews 6:4–8; 2 Peter 2:19–22; Hebrews 10:38
- 31 Proverbs 20:18; Proverbs 25:8; 1 Kings 20:11; 2 Kings 18:20–22
- 32 Acts 12:20; 2 Kings 10:4–5; Job 40:9; Luke 12:58; James 4:6–10
- 33 Philippians 3:7–8; 1 John 2:15–16; Luke 5:28; Luke 14:26; Luke 18:28–30
- 34 Matthew 5:13; Colossians 4:6; Mark 9:49–50; Hebrews 2:4–8
- 35 Matthew 11:15; Revelation 2:11; Revelation 2:7; Luke 9:44; Matthew 13:9
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Holy lessons have been set forth before us, to which we should both give ear, and upon which by the Lord's help I would deliver some observations. In the Apostolic lesson thanks are rendered unto the Lord for the faith of the Gentiles, of course, because it was His work.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
They then represent the Saviour as having indicated this twofold faculty: first, the sustaining power, when He said, "Whosoever doth not bear his cross (Stauros), and follow after me, cannot be my disciple;" and again, "Taking up the cross, follow me;" but the separating power when He said, "I came not to send peace, but a sword." They also maintain …
Thus both of them, being now Thine, were building a tower at the necessary cost, --of forsaking all that they had and following Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For this reason Luke saith, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple;" not commanding simply to hate them, since this were even quite contrary to the law; but "when one desires to be loved more …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
John, therefore, did distinctly foresee the first "resurrection of the just," and the inheritance in the kingdom of the earth; and what the prophets have prophesied concerning it harmonize [with his vision].