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When Jesus said this, they could not say anything else.

Jesus watched how people chose the best places to sit at the meal.[a] So he told this story to those who were sitting there:

‘When someone asks you to come to a special meal, do not sit in the best place. A man that is more important than you may come later.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:7 The best places were the seats nearest to the man that had asked them to come. The most important people sat there and they received their food first.