What about the rich man who cast out the guest who took the head seat? Who was the bad guy? Or the servant who held his debtors accountable to the penny? Yet he was punished by the “rich” man.
Always better to be asked to move up at the banquet table rather than to be banished to a lower position, right?
What about the prayers of the Pharisee who stood in the front and bragged, and the prayers of the common poor man who stood in the back and prayed?