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Matthew 22:12
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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.  
13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot,1 take him away, and cast him ainto outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’  
14 a“For many are called, but few are chosen.”  

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15 aThen the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.  
16 And they sent to Him their disciples with the aHerodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not1 regard the person of men.  
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Matthew 22:12

Not having a wedding-garment (mh exwn enduma gamou). Mh is in the Koin‚ the usual negative with participles unless special emphasis on the negative is desired as in ouk endedumenon. There is a subtle distinction between mh and ou like our subjective and objective notions. Some hold that the wedding-garment here is a portion of a lost parable separate from that of the Wedding Feast, but there is no evidence for that idea. Wunsche does report a parable by a rabbi of a king who set no time for his feast and the guests arrived, some properly dressed waiting at the door; others in their working clothes did not wait, but went off to work and, when the summons suddenly came, they had no time to dress properly and were made to stand and watch while the others partook of the feast.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 22:12:

Mark 1:25
Mark 12:1
Mark 12:12
Luke 4:34
Luke 14:16
1 Corinthians 9:9
James 1:26
1 Peter 2:15
Revelation 19:7

 

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