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Luke 14:12-14

The Parable of the Great Banquet

12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give ^aa dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers ^{▼

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Or your brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters} or your relatives or rich neighbors ^clest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast ^dinvite ^ethe poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid ^fat ^gthe resurrection of the just.”