014:014 and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous." 014:015 After listening to this teaching, one of His fellow guests said to Him, "Blessed is he who shall feast in God's Kingdom." 014:016 "A man once gave a great dinner," replied Jesus, "to which he invited a large number of guests. 014:017 At dinner-time he sent his servant to announce to those who had been invited, "`Come, for things are now ready.' 014:018 "But they all without exception began to excuse themselves. The first told him, "`I have purchased a piece of land, and must of necessity go and look at it. Pray hold me excused.' 014:019 "A second pleaded, "`I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am on my way to try them. Pray hold me excused.' 014:020 "Another said, "`I am just married. It is impossible for me to come.' 014:021 "So the servant came and brought these answers to his master, and they stirred his anger. "`Go out quickly,' he said, `into the streets of the city--the wide ones and the narrow. You will see poor men, and crippled, blind, lame: fetch them all in here.' 014:022 "Soon the servant reported the result, saying, "`Sir, what you ordered is done, and there is room still.' 014:023 "`Go out,' replied the master, `to the high roads and hedge-rows, and compel the people to come in, so that my house may be filled. 014:024 For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my dinner.'" 014:025 On His journey vast crowds attended Him, towards whom He turned and said, 014:026 "If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine. 014:027 No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine. 014:028 "Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it?-- 014:029 lest perhaps, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to finish, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him, 014:030 saying, `This man began to build, but could not finish.' 014:031 Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand? 014:032 If not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends messengers and sues for peace. 014:033 Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine. 014:034 "Salt is good: but if even the salt has become tasteless, what will you use to season it?