The Parable of the Guests at the Wedding Feast

⁷ Now he told a parable to those who had been invited when he^[a] noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them, ⁸ “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast,^[b] do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you has been invited by him, ⁹ and the one who invited you both^[c] will come and^[d] say to you, ‘Give the place to this person,’ and then with shame you will begin to take the last place.