Chiasm
Luke 14:01–14
Luke 14:01–143 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1-2 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
- A' 6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
- A 7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
- B 8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
- C 9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
- B' 10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room;
- C' 10b that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
- B 8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
- A' 11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
- 2A. 12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours;
- 2B. 12b lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
- 2A'. 13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
- 2B'. 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.