Luke 14:16-18

New American Standard Bible

Parable of the Dinner

¹⁶ But He said to him, “^(A)A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many; ¹⁷ and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is ready now.’ ¹⁸ And yet they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I purchased a field and I need to go out to look at it; ^[a]please consider me excused.’