18 You lawyers and you Pharisees, what do you say about the lawlessness of healing on the Sabbath day? Here is a man, one of your own, and he is sore distressed.
19 Shall I, in God’s own strength, say out the healing Word and heal this man?
20 The lawyers and the Pharisees were dumb; they answered not.
21 Then Jesus spoke the healing Word and healed the man and he, rejoicing, went his way.
22 Then Jesus said again unto the lawyers and the Pharisees, Which one of you who has a horse or cow, if it would fall into a pit upon the Sabbath day would not call in his friends to help to draw it out?
23 And not a man could answer, Here am I.
24 As Jesus looked upon the guests who had been bidden to the feast and saw them crowding in to get the highest seats, he said to them,
25 You selfish men why do you strive to take the highest seats when you are but invited guests? You do not show our host the courtesies of life.
26 When men are bidden to a marriage feast they should sit in the lower seats until the host shall place them where he wills.
27 You may, unbidden, take the highest seat; but then a man more honorable may come and when the host shall bid you rise and take a lower seat that he may honor his more worthy guest, you cannot help but blush for very shame in your humility.