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# Luke 14

Luke 14 is chapter 14 of 24 in the Gospel of Luke. Here are all 35 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ heals the dropsical man. The parable of the supper. The necessity of renouncing all to follow Christ.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Luke 14 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And it happened that, when Jesus entered the house of a certain leader of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were observing him.
2. And behold, a certain man before him was afflicted with edema.
3. And responding, Jesus spoke to the experts in the law and to the Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?”
4. But they kept silent. Yet truly, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.
5. And responding to them, he said, “Which of you will have a donkey or an ox fall into a pit, and will not promptly pull him out, on the day of the Sabbath?”
6. And they were unable to respond to him about these things.
7. Then he also told a parable, to those who were invited, noticing how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:
8. “When you are invited to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest perhaps someone more honored than yourself may have been invited by him.
9. And then he who called both you and him, approaching, may say to you, ‘Give this place to him.’ And then you would begin, with shame, to take the last place.
10. But when you are invited, go, sit down in the lowest place, so that, when he who invited you arrives, he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the sight of those who sit at table together with you.
11. For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.”
12. Then he also said to the one who had invited him: “When you prepare a lunch or dinner, do not choose to call your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps they might then invite you in return and repayment would made to you.
13. But when you prepare a feast, call the poor, the disabled, the lame, and the blind.
14. And you will be blessed because they do not have a way to repay you. So then, your recompense will be in the resurrection of the just.”
15. When someone sitting at table with him had heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will eat bread in the kingdom of God.”
16. So he said to him: “A certain man prepared a great feast, and he invited many.
17. And he sent his servant, at the hour of the feast, to tell the invited to come; for now everything was ready.
18. And at once they all began to make excuses. The first said to him: ‘I bought a farm, and I need to go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’
19. And another said: ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you to excuse me.’
20. And another said, ‘I have taken a wife, and therefore I am not able to go.’
21. And returning, the servant reported these things to his lord. Then the father of the family, becoming angry, said to his servant: ‘Go out quickly into the streets and neighborhoods of the city. And lead here the poor, and the disabled, and the blind, and the lame.’
22. And the servant said: ‘It has been done, just as you ordered, lord, and there is still room.’
23. And the lord said to the servant: ‘Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel them to enter, so that my house may be filled.
24. For I tell you, that none of those men who were invited will taste of my feast.’”
25. Now great crowds traveled with him. And turning around, he said to them:
26. “If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.
27. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.
28. For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?
29. Otherwise, after he will have laid the foundation and not been able to finish it, everyone who sees it may begin to mock him,
30. saying: ‘This man began to build what he was not able to finish.’
31. Or, what king, advancing to engage in war against another king, would not first sit down and consider whether he may be able, with ten thousand, to meet one who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32. If not, then while the other is still far away, sending a delegation, he would ask him for terms of peace.
33. Therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all that he possesses is not able to be my disciple.
34. Salt is good. But if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be seasoned?
35. It is useful neither in soil, nor in manure, so instead, it shall be thrown away. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

## Luke 14 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et factum est cum intraret Jesus in domum cujusdam principis pharisæorum sabbato manducare panem, et ipsi observabant eum.
2. Et ecce homo quidam hydropicus erat ante illum.
3. Et respondens Jesus dixit ad legisperitos et pharisæos, dicens: Si licet sabbato curare?
4. At illi tacuerunt. Ipse vero apprehensum sanavit eum, ac dimisit.
5. Et respondens ad illos dixit: Cujus vestrum asinus, aut bos in puteum cadet, et non continuo extrahet illum die sabbati?
6. Et non poterant ad hæc respondere illi.
7. Dicebat autem et ad invitatos parabolam, intendens quomodo primos accubitus eligerent, dicens ad illos:
8. Cum invitatus fueris ad nuptias, non discumbas in primo loco, ne forte honoratior te sit invitatus ab illo.
9. Et veniens is, qui te et illum vocavit, dicat tibi: Da huic locum: et tunc incipias cum rubore novissimum locum tenere.
10. Sed cum vocatus fueris, vade, recumbe in novissimo loco: ut, cum venerit qui te invitavit, dicat tibi: Amice, ascende superius. Tunc erit tibi gloria coram simul discumbentibus:
11. quia omnis, qui se exaltat, humiliabitur: et qui se humiliat, exaltabitur.
12. Dicebat autem et ei, qui invitaverat: Cum facis prandium, aut cœnam, noli vocare amicos tuos, neque fratres tuos, neque cognatos, neque vicinos divites: ne forte te et ipsi reinvitent, et fiat tibi retributio;
13. sed cum facis convivium, voca pauperes, debiles, claudos, et cæcos:
14. et beatus eris, quia non habent retribuere tibi: retribuetur enim tibi in resurrectione justorum.
15. Hæc cum audisset quidam de simul discumbentibus, dixit illi: Beatus qui manducabit panem in regno Dei.
16. At ipse dixit ei: Homo quidam fecit cœnam magnam, et vocavit multos.
17. Et misit servum suum hora cœnæ dicere invitatis ut venirent, quia jam parata sunt omnia.
18. Et cœperunt simul omnes excusare. Primus dixit ei: Villam emi, et necesse habeo exire, et videre illam: rogo te, habe me excusatum.
19. Et alter dixit: Juga boum emi quinque, et eo probare illa: rogo te, habe me excusatum.
20. Et alius dixit: Uxorem duxi, et ideo non possum venire.
21. Et reversus servus nuntiavit hæc domino suo. Tunc iratus paterfamilias, dixit servo suo: Exi cito in plateas et vicos civitatis: et pauperes, ac debiles, et cæcos, et claudos introduc huc.
22. Et ait servus: Domine, factum est ut imperasti, et adhuc locus est.
23. Et ait dominus servo: Exi in vias, et sæpes: et compelle intrare, ut impleatur domus mea.
24. Dico autem vobis quod nemo virorum illorum qui vocati sunt, gustabit cœnam meam.
25. Ibant autem turbæ multæ cum eo: et conversus dixit ad illos:
26. Si quis venit ad me, et non odit patrem suum, et matrem, et uxorem, et filios, et fratres, et sorores, adhuc autem et animam suam, non potest meus esse discipulus.
27. Et qui non bajulat crucem suam, et venit post me, non potest meus esse discipulus.
28. Quis enim ex vobis volens turrim ædificare, non prius sedens computat sumptus, qui necessarii sunt, si habeat ad perficiendum,
29. ne, posteaquam posuerit fundamentum, et non potuerit perficere, omnes qui vident, incipiant illudere ei,
30. dicentes: Quia hic homo cœpit ædificare, et non potuit consummare?
31. Aut quis rex iturus committere bellum adversus alium regem, non sedens prius cogitat, si possit cum decem millibus occurrere ei, qui cum viginti millibus venit ad se?
32. Alioquin adhuc illo longe agente, legationem mittens rogat ea quæ pacis sunt.
33. Sic ergo omnis ex vobis, qui non renuntiat omnibus quæ possidet, non potest meus esse discipulus.
34. Bonum est sal: si autem sal evanuerit, in quo condietur?
35. Neque in terram, neque in sterquilinium utile est, sed foras mittetur. Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 575: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 588: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 582: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1618: Marriage in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2544: Poverty of Heart ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Humility is truth.” — St. Teresa of Ávila, The Interior Castle, I.2, 1577 (On this theme: verse 11)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 26: The law of Christ does not allow us to hate even our enemies, much less our parents: but the meaning of the text is, that we must be in that disposition of soul, as to be willing to renounce, and part with every thing, how near or dear soever it may be to us, that would keep us from following Christ.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Oct 30, 2026: Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Luke 14:1-6
- Sat, Oct 31, 2026: Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Luke 14:1, 7-11
- Tue, Nov 3, 2026: Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Luke 14:15-24
- Wed, Nov 4, 2026: St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop — Gospel, Luke 14:25-33

10 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).