< Luke 14 >
1 One (Jewish day of rest/Sabbath day), Jesus went to eat [SYN] at the house of an important Pharisee. Some [men who studied the Jewish] laws and other Pharisees who were there were watching him carefully [to see if he would do something for which they could accuse him].
අනන්තරං විශ්රාමවාරේ යීශෞ ප්රධානස්ය ඵිරූශිනෝ ගෘහේ භෝක්තුං ගතවති තේ තං වීක්ෂිතුම් ආරේභිරේ|
2 Unexpectedly, there was a man in front of Jesus whose arms and legs were swollen.
තදා ජලෝදරී තස්ය සම්මුඛේ ස්ථිතඃ|
3 Jesus said to them, “Is it permitted in [our(inc)] Jewish laws to heal [someone] (on our Jewish rest day/on the Sabbath), or not?”
තතඃ ස ව්යවස්ථාපකාන් ඵිරූශිනශ්ච පප්රච්ඡ, විශ්රාමවාරේ ස්වාස්ථ්යං කර්ත්තව්යං න වා? තතස්තේ කිමපි න ප්රත්යූචුඃ|
4 [They knew that their laws permitted it, but they thought that healing was work, which they thought was wrong to do] (on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day) (OR, [they knew that their laws permitted it, but they did not want to admit it]). So they did not reply. Then Jesus put his hands on the man and healed him. Then he told him to go [home].
තදා ස තං රෝගිණං ස්වස්ථං කෘත්වා විසසර්ජ;
5 Then he said to the rest of them, “If you had a son or an ox that fell into a well on a (Sabbath/our day of rest), would you immediately [work to] pull him out, [or would you(sg) let him stay there until the next day]?”
තානුවාච ච යුෂ්මාකං කස්යචිද් ගර්ද්දභෝ වෘෂභෝ වා චේද් ගර්ත්තේ පතති තර්හි විශ්රාමවාරේ තත්ක්ෂණං ස කිං තං නෝත්ථාපයිෂ්යති?
6 [They knew that they would immediately work to pull him out, even on their day of rest, so they could not justly say that Jesus did wrong by healing the man on that day. So] they said nothing in reply to Jesus.
තතස්තේ කථායා ඒතස්යාඃ කිමපි ප්රතිවක්තුං න ශේකුඃ|
7 Jesus noticed that those people who had been {whom [the Pharisee] had} invited [to the meal] chose [to sit in] the places where important [people usually sit]. Then he gave [this advice] to them:
අපරඤ්ච ප්රධානස්ථානමනෝනීතත්වකරණං විලෝක්ය ස නිමන්ත්රිතාන් ඒතදුපදේශකථාං ජගාද,
8 “When one of you [(sg)] is invited by someone {someone invites one of you [(sg)]} to a wedding feast, do not sit in a place where important people sit. Perhaps the man [giving the feast] has invited a man more important than you [(sg)].
ත්වං විවාහාදිභෝජ්යේෂු නිමන්ත්රිතඃ සන් ප්රධානස්ථානේ මෝපාවේක්ෂීඃ| ත්වත්තෝ ගෞරවාන්විතනිමන්ත්රිතජන ආයාතේ
9 [When that man comes], the man who invited both of you will come to you [(sg)] and say to you, ‘Let this man take your seat!’ Then you [(sg)] will have to take the most undesirable seat, and you will be ashamed.
නිමන්ත්රයිතාගත්ය මනුෂ්යායෛතස්මෛ ස්ථානං දේහීති වාක්යං චේද් වක්ෂ්යති තර්හි ත්වං සඞ්කුචිතෝ භූත්වා ස්ථාන ඉතරස්මින් උපවේෂ්ටුම් උද්යංස්යසි|
10 Instead, when you are invited {[someone] invites one of you} [to a feast], go and sit in the most undesirable seat. Then when the man who invited everyone comes, he will say to you [(sg)], ‘Friend, sit in a better seat!’ Then all the people who are eating with you [(sg)] will see that he is honoring you.
අස්මාත් කාරණාදේව ත්වං නිමන්ත්රිතෝ ගත්වා(අ)ප්රධානස්ථාන උපවිශ, තතෝ නිමන්ත්රයිතාගත්ය වදිෂ්යති, හේ බන්ධෝ ප්රෝච්චස්ථානං ගත්වෝපවිශ, තථා සති භෝජනෝපවිෂ්ටානාං සකලානාං සාක්ෂාත් ත්වං මාන්යෝ භවිෂ්යසි|
11 Also, [remember this]: [God] will humble those who exalt themselves. And [he] will exalt those who humble themselves.”
යඃ කශ්චිත් ස්වමුන්නමයති ස නමයිෂ්යතේ, කින්තු යඃ කශ්චිත් ස්වං නමයති ස උන්නමයිෂ්යතේ|
12 [Jesus] also said to [the Pharisee] who had invited him to the meal, “When you [(sg)] invite people to a midday or evening meal, do not invite your friends or your family or your other relatives or your rich neighbors. They can later invite you [(sg) for a meal]. In that way they will repay you.
තදා ස නිමන්ත්රයිතාරං ජනමපි ජගාද, මධ්යාහ්නේ රාත්රෞ වා භෝජ්යේ කෘතේ නිජබන්ධුගණෝ වා භ්රාතෘගණෝ වා ඥාතිගණෝ වා ධනිගණෝ වා සමීපවාසිගණෝ වා ඒතාන් න නිමන්ත්රය, තථා කෘතේ චේත් තේ ත්වාං නිමන්ත්රයිෂ්යන්ති, තර්හි පරිශෝධෝ භවිෂ්යති|
13 Instead, when you [(sg)] give a feast, invite poor [people], crippled [people], lame [people], or blind [people].
කින්තු යදා භේජ්යං කරෝෂි තදා දරිද්රශුෂ්කකරඛඤ්ජාන්ධාන් නිමන්ත්රය,
14 They will be unable to repay you. [But God will bless you! He] will repay you [at the time] when [he causes] righteous people to become alive again.”
තත ආශිෂං ලප්ස්යසේ, තේෂු පරිශෝධං කර්ත්තුමශක්නුවත්සු ශ්මශානාද්ධාර්ම්මිකානාමුත්ථානකාලේ ත්වං ඵලාං ලප්ස්යසේ|
15 One of those who were eating with Jesus heard him say that. He said to Jesus, “God [has truly] blessed [us Jews] who will eat [with the Messiah] when he starts to rule!”
අනන්තරං තාං කථාං නිශම්ය භෝජනෝපවිෂ්ටඃ කශ්චිත් කථයාමාස, යෝ ජන ඊශ්වරස්ය රාජ්යේ භෝක්තුං ලප්ස්යතේ සඒව ධන්යඃ|
16 But [to show that many Jews whom God had invited would not accept God’s invitation] [MET], Jesus replied to him, “One time a man [decided] to prepare a large feast. He invited many people to come.
තතඃ ස උවාච, කශ්චිත් ජනෝ රාත්රෞ භේජ්යං කෘත්වා බහූන් නිමන්ත්රයාමාස|
17 When it was the day for the feast, he sent his servant to tell those who had been {whom he had} invited, ‘Come [now] because everything is ready!’
තතෝ භෝජනසමයේ නිමන්ත්රිතලෝකාන් ආහ්වාතුං දාසද්වාරා කථයාමාස, ඛද්යද්රව්යාණි සර්ව්වාණි සමාසාදිතානි සන්ති, යූයමාගච්ඡත|
18 But [when the servant did that], all of the people [whom he had invited] began to say why they did not want to come. The first [man the servant went to] said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please [ask your master to] forgive me for not coming!’
කින්තු තේ සර්ව්ව ඒකෛකං ඡලං කෘත්වා ක්ෂමාං ප්රාර්ථයාඤ්චක්රිරේ| ප්රථමෝ ජනඃ කථයාමාස, ක්ෂේත්රමේකං ක්රීතවානහං තදේව ද්රෂ්ටුං මයා ගන්තව්යම්, අතඒව මාං ක්ෂන්තුං තං නිවේදය|
19 Another person said, ‘I have just bought five pair of oxen, and I must go to examine them. Please [ask your master to] forgive me for not coming!’
අන්යෝ ජනඃ කථයාමාස, දශවෘෂානහං ක්රීතවාන් තාන් පරීක්ෂිතුං යාමි තස්මාදේව මාං ක්ෂන්තුං තං නිවේදය|
20 Another person said, ‘I have just been married. So I cannot come.’
අපරඃ කථයාමාස, ව්යූඪවානහං තස්මාත් කාරණාද් යාතුං න ශක්නෝමි|
21 So the servant returned to his master and reported what [everyone had said]. The owner of the house was angry [when he heard the reasons they gave for not] coming. He said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city [and find] poor and crippled and blind and lame [people, and bring] them here into [my house]!’
පශ්චාත් ස දාසෝ ගත්වා නිජප්රභෝඃ සාක්ෂාත් සර්ව්වවෘත්තාන්තං නිවේදයාමාස, තතෝසෞ ගෘහපතිඃ කුපිත්වා ස්වදාසං ව්යාජහාර, ත්වං සත්වරං නගරස්ය සන්නිවේශාන් මාර්ගාංශ්ච ගත්වා දරිද්රශුෂ්කකරඛඤ්ජාන්ධාන් අත්රානය|
22 [After the servant went and did that], he [came back and] said, ‘Sir, I have done what you [(sg)] told me to do, but there is still room [for more people].’
තතෝ දාසෝ(අ)වදත්, හේ ප්රභෝ භවත ආඥානුසාරේණාක්රියත තථාපි ස්ථානමස්ති|
23 [So] his master said to him, ‘Then go [outside the city]. Search for people along the highways. Search also along the narrow roads with hedges beside them [where homeless people may be staying]. Strongly urge the people in those places to come to [my house]. I want it to be full of [people]!’”
තදා ප්රභුඃ පුන ර්දාසායාකථයත්, රාජපථාන් වෘක්ෂමූලානි ච යාත්වා මදීයගෘහපූරණාර්ථං ලෝකානාගන්තුං ප්රවර්ත්තය|
24 [Then Jesus said], “I tell you [(pl)] this: Very few of you [Jewish] people will enjoy my feast, even though [I] invited you [first to eat it with me when I become king].”
අහං යුෂ්මභ්යං කථයාමි, පූර්ව්වනිමන්ත්රිතානමේකෝපි මමාස්ය රාත්රිභෝජ්යස්යාස්වාදං න ප්රාප්ස්යති|
25 Large groups of people were traveling with [Jesus]. He turned and said to them,
අනන්තරං බහුෂු ලෝකේෂු යීශෝඃ පශ්චාද් ව්රජිතේෂු සත්සු ස ව්යාඝුට්ය තේභ්යඃ කථයාමාස,
26 “If anyone comes to me who loves his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters [more than] [HYP] [he loves me], he cannot be my disciple. He must even love me more than he loves his own life!
යඃ කශ්චින් මම සමීපම් ආගත්ය ස්වස්ය මාතා පිතා පත්නී සන්තානා භ්රාතරෝ භගිම්යෝ නිජප්රාණාශ්ච, ඒතේභ්යඃ සර්ව්වේභ්යෝ මය්යධිකං ප්රේම න කරෝති, ස මම ශිෂ්යෝ භවිතුං න ශක්ෂ්යති|
27 [People who are ready to execute a prisoner make] him carry his cross [MET] [to the place where others will nail him] on it. Only those who are willing [to allow others to hurt them and disgrace them] like that because of being my disciples, and who are willing to obey what I teach, can be my disciples.
යඃ කශ්චිත් ස්වීයං ක්රුශං වහන් මම පශ්චාන්න ගච්ඡති, සෝපි මම ශිෂ්යෝ භවිතුං න ශක්ෂ්යති|
28 [I will illustrate] [MET]. If one of you desired to build a (tower/big house), (you would surely first sit down and determine how much it would cost!/would you not first sit down and determine how much it would cost?) [RHQ] Then you would determine whether you had enough money to complete it.
දුර්ගනිර්ම්මාණේ කතිව්යයෝ භවිෂ්යති, තථා තස්ය සමාප්තිකරණාර්ථං සම්පත්තිරස්ති න වා, ප්රථමමුපවිශ්ය ඒතන්න ගණයති, යුෂ්මාකං මධ්ය ඒතාදෘශඃ කෝස්ති?
29 [If you did not do that], if you laid the foundation and were not able to finish [the rest of the tower], everyone who saw it would make fun of you.
නෝචේද් භිත්තිං කෘත්වා ශේෂේ යදි සමාපයිතුං න ශක්ෂ්යති,
30 They would say, ‘This man started to build [a tower], but he was not able to finish it!’
තර්හි මානුෂෝයං නිචේතුම් ආරභත සමාපයිතුං නාශක්නෝත්, ඉති ව්යාහෘත්ය සර්ව්වේ තමුපහසිෂ්යන්ති|
31 Or, if a king decided to [send his army to] war against another king, (he would surely first sit down [with those who] advised [him]./would he not first sit down [with those who] advised [him]?) [RHQ] They would determine whether [his army], which had only 10,000 soldiers, could defeat the [other army], which had 20,000 soldiers, and was about to attack his [army].
අපරඤ්ච භින්නභූපතිනා සහ යුද්ධං කර්ත්තුම් උද්යම්ය දශසහස්රාණි සෛන්යානි ගෘහීත්වා විංශතිසහස්රේඃ සෛන්යෛඃ සහිතස්ය සමීපවාසිනඃ සම්මුඛං යාතුං ශක්ෂ්යාමි න වේති ප්රථමං උපවිශ්ය න විචාරයති ඒතාදෘශෝ භූමිපතිඃ කඃ?
32 If he [decided] that his army could not [defeat that army], he would send messengers to [the other king] while the other army was still far away. He would tell the messengers to say to that king, ‘What things must I do to have peace with your country?’
යදි න ශක්නෝති තර්හි රිපාවතිදූරේ තිෂ්ඨති සති නිජදූතං ප්රේෂ්ය සන්ධිං කර්ත්තුං ප්රාර්ථයේත|
33 So, similarly, if any one of you does not first decide that you [(sg)] are [willing to] give up all that you have, you cannot be my disciple.”
තද්වද් යුෂ්මාකං මධ්යේ යඃ කශ්චින් මදර්ථං සර්ව්වස්වං හාතුං න ශක්නෝති ස මම ශිෂ්යෝ භවිතුං න ශක්ෂ්යති|
34 [Jesus also said, “You are like] [MET] salt, which is useful [to put on food]. But (salt certainly cannot be made {[you] certainly cannot make salt} to taste salty again if it stops tasting salty!/can salt be made {can [you] make salt} to taste salty again if it quits tasting salty?) [RHQ]
ලවණම් උත්තමම් ඉති සත්යං, කින්තු යදි ලවණස්ය ලවණත්වම් අපගච්ඡති තර්හි තත් කථං ස්වාදුයුක්තං භවිෂ්යති?
35 [If salt does not taste salty any more], it is not good for the soil or even for the manure heap. [People] throw it away. [The same thing will happen to you if you become useless to God]. If you want to understand what I just said [IDM], you must consider [carefully] what you have heard!”
තද භූම්යර්ථම් ආලවාලරාශ්යර්ථමපි භද්රං න භවති; ලෝකාස්තද් බහිඃ ක්ෂිපන්ති| යස්ය ශ්රෝතුං ශ්රෝත්රේ ස්තඃ ස ශෘණෝතු|