Luke 14:7-11, 15-24

All that is recorded in the text before us occurs on the sabbath day at the house of a chief Pharisee. Jesus had entered into the house to eat bread upon an invitation that only the owner of the house could issue (see v. 1). Despite the fact that Jesus had issued numerous criticisms of the scribes and Pharisees, He was not universally rejected by them. In Luke 13:31, one of the…