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The Parable of the Wedding Feast

1 And Jesus answered aand spoke to them again by parables and said:  
2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,
3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
4 Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; amy oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ’  
5 But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.
6 And the rest seized his servants, treated them1 spitefully, and killed them.  
7 But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out ahis armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.  
8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not aworthy.  
9 Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’
10 So those servants went out into the highways and agathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.  
11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there awho did not have on a wedding garment.  
12 So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was aspeechless.  
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Matthew 22:1

Again in parables (palin en parabolaiv). Matthew has already given two on this occasion (The Two Sons, The Wicked Husbandmen). He alone gives this Parable of the Marriage Feast of the King's Son. It is somewhat similar to that of The Supper in Luke 14:16-23 given on another occasion. Hence some scholars consider this merely Matthew's version of the Lucan parable in the wrong place because of Matthew's habit of grouping the sayings of Jesus. But that is a gratuitous indictment of Matthew's report which definitely locates the parable here by palin. Some regard it as not spoken by Jesus at all, but an effort on the part of the writer to cover the sin and fate of the Jews, the calling of the Gentiles, and God's demand for righteousness. But here again it is like Jesus and suits the present occasion.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 22:1:

Mark 12:1
Mark 12:12
Luke 14:16

 

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