Luke 14:21

The angry master sends his servant to bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame from the city. When the privileged refuse, God welcomes the needy and outcast.

Cross-references · 35

• Luke 14:13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
• Matt 11:5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
• Luke 14:24For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”
• Matt 22:7–8When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
• John 9:39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Matt 21:28–31But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
• Ps 113:7–8He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
• Isa 35:6Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
• Heb 2:3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
• 1 Sam 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
• Rev 19:15Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
• John 4:39–42From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”
• Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
• Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Rev 15:1–8I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
• John 7:47–49The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
• Acts 8:4–7Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
• Prov 1:20–25Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
• Isa 33:23Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.
• Heb 13:17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
• Matt 11:28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• Heb 12:25–26See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• Matt 15:12Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”
• Jer 5:1“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
• 1 Sam 25:12So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him all these words.
• Zech 11:11It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.
• Prov 9:3–4She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:
• Luke 7:22–23Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
• Matt 18:31So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
• Zech 11:7So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
• Prov 8:2–4On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
• Luke 9:10The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.
• Ps 38:7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
• Ps 2:12Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

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