Discovery BoxLuke 14:13 
Context14:13 But when you host an elaborate meal, 1 invite the poor, the crippled, 2 the lame, and 3 the blind. 4
Luke 14:12
Context14:12 He 5 said also to the man 6 who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, 7 don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.
1 tn This term, δοχή (doch), is a third term for a meal (see v. 12) that could also be translated “banquet, feast.”
2 sn Normally the term means crippled as a result of being maimed or mutilated (L&N 23.177).
3 tn Here “and” has been supplied between the last two elements in the series in keeping with English style.
4 sn This list of needy is like Luke 7:22. See Deut 14:28-29; 16:11-14; 26:11-13.
5 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
6 sn That is, the leader of the Pharisees (v. 1).
7 tn The meaning of the two terms for meals here, ἄριστον (ariston) and δεῖπνον (deipnon), essentially overlap (L&N 23.22). Translators usually try to find two terms for a meal to use as equivalents (e.g., lunch and dinner, dinner and supper, etc.). In this translation “dinner” and “banquet” have been used, since the expected presence of rich neighbors later in the verse suggests a rather more elaborate occasion than an ordinary meal.
