Tobit 2:2

Deuterocanon

1 Then during the reign of Esar-haddon I returned home, and my wife Anna and my son Tobias were restored to me. At our festival of Pentecost, which is the sacred festival of weeks, a good dinner was prepared for me and I reclined to eat. 2 When the table was set for me and an abundance of food placed before me, I said to my son Tobias, "Go, my child, and bring whatever poor person you may find of our people among the exiles in Nineveh, who is wholeheartedly mindful of God, and he shall eat together with me. I will wait for you, until you come back." 3 So Tobias went to look for some poor person of our people. When he had returned he said, "Father!" And I replied, "Here I am, my child." Then he went on to say, "Look, father, one of our own people has been murdered and thrown into the market place, and now he lies there strangled." 4 Then I sprang up, left the dinner before even tasting it, and removed the body from the square and laid it in one of the rooms until sunset when I might bury it.

Luke 14:13

New Testament

9 So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place. 10 But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up here to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” 12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, 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. 13 But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14 Then you will be blessed because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

 Notes and References

"... What we see here is various books of the Apocrypha being included in part by some incomplete lists along with other complete lists who quote different parts of the Apocrypha. This data does show that at the center of the origins, Israel’s second canon was quite influential and not always separated from the primary canon in early Christianity. So, the overall canon could have embraced all of the writings which were used as backdrop for stories, narrative tales, the inspiration behind Gospel and the General Epistles for the New Testament. For example, Tobit 4:15 and Sirach 31:15 were the inspiration behind the statements in Matthew 7:12. Judith 13:18 supports the concepts in Luke 1:42. Tobit 2:2 is referred to in Luke 14:13. Even the idea of an eternal king who was not born of normal parents is entertained in Tobit 12:12 and echoed in Revelation 8:3. The teaching in 1 Timothy 1:17 is from Tobit 13:7-11. First Maccabees 4:59 is the basis for John’s in John 10:22. The Apostle Paul utilized 1 Mac 12:9 in Romans 15:4. First Maccabees 2:4-8 is used by John the Revelator in Revelation 11:19 ..."

Roberts, Tom The Prefiguring and Exaltation of Wisdom in the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha (pp. 52-53) Hellenic Orthodox University, 2016

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