New Revised Standard Version
When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus saw how the guests had tried to take the best seats. So he told them:

New American Bible
He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:

And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:

put.

Judges 14:12 And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats:

Proverbs 8:1 Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths,

Ezekiel 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

Matthew 13:34 All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

they.

Luke 11:43 Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplace.

Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts:

Matthew 23:6 And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,

Mark 12:38,39 And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace, . . .

Acts 8:18,19 And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, . . .

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:

3 John 1:9 I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, doth not receive us.