Luke 14:13

But when thou makest a feast, bid the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

Boles' comment on this is: "It is far better to give to relieve the distressed than to set a feast to those who do not need it."[21] A man is not in the true sense hospitable who entertains only those who can entertain him. "Such interested hospitality is not wrong, but it does not lay up treasure in heaven."[22]

With this word to the host, Jesus pinpointed the third of three distortions, or reverse ethics, which marked the conduct of his hearers. In Luke 14:5, it was love of property elevated over love of men; in Luke 14:7, it was pride and conceit elevated above humility; and here in these verses it was selfishness elevated above genuine hospitality.

[21] H. Leo Boles, Commentary on Luke (Nashville: Gospel Advocate Company, 1940), p. 285.

[22] J. R. Dummelow, op. cit., p. 757.