Scripture for Sunday, June 29th

Luke 14:15-24 English Standard Version

15 When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these

things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the

kingdom of God!” 16 But he said to him, “A man once gave a great

banquet and invited many. 17 And at the time for the banquet he sent

his servant[a] to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for

everything is now ready.’ 18 But they all alike began to make excuses.

The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and

see it. Please have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought

five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me

excused.’20 And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I

cannot come.’ 21 So the servant came and reported these things to

his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to

his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and

bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ 22 And the servant

said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is

room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways

and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be

filled. 24 For I tell you,[b] none of those men who were invited shall

taste my banquet.’”

“He fell among robbers who stripped him and beat him and,

departed, leaving him half-dead” (Luke 10:30).

“The Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces” (Isaiah 25:8).