Luke 14 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: A Seat at the Table

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolEveryone Is Invited

lj and tablelj and peoplelj and bread

Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenBe Humble

TABLE → picture 3BREAD → picture 1CUP → picture 4HOUSE → picture 2

Grade 1A Seat at the Table

Take the lowest seat → picture 2Invite the poor → picture 4A great banquet → picture 1Fill My house → picture 5Count the cost → picture 3

Order:

1. Take the lowest seat2. Invite the poor3. A great banquet4. Fill My house5. Count the cost

Grade 2Come to the Feast

What seats did the guests pick? The best seats (circle)
What seat did Jesus say to pick? The lowest seat (circle)
Whom did Jesus say to invite to a party? The poor and people who cannot walk or see
What did the first guests make? Excuses (circle)
Who came to the feast instead? Poor people and people from the roads

Grade 3The Great Banquet

Where did Jesus eat on the Sabbath? At a Pharisee's house
Why did Jesus say to take the lowest place? The host may move you up, and God lifts up the humble.
Why should we invite people who cannot repay us? We will be repaid when the righteous rise again (God will reward us).
Name one excuse a guest gave. Any one: bought a field, bought oxen, or just married
Why did the master bring in the poor? So that his house would be filled

1: Take the lowest seat2: Invite the poor3: A great banquet4: Fill My house5: Count the cost

Grade 4Humble Hearts

What did Jesus do for the man with the swelling illness? He healed him on the Sabbath.
What happens to the humble and the proud? The humble will be lifted up, and the proud will be brought low.
Who was invited to the feast after the first guests refused? The poor, crippled, blind and lame, and people from the roads and hedges
What do the tower builder and king teach? Count the cost of following Jesus.

Word bank: 1. seats; 2. humble; 3. invite; 4. God; 5. feast

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Counting the Cost

What question about the Sabbath could the Pharisees not answer? Which of them would not pull a son or an ox out of a well on the Sabbath?
Why were the guests' excuses wrong? They put good things ahead of the master's invitation.
Whom did the master invite after the guests refused? People from the streets, lanes, highways and hedges (the poor and disabled)
What does the banquet show about God's grace? It goes out to those who know they need it.
What do the builder and king examples teach? Following Jesus means giving Him everything; count the cost.

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.