Matthew 22:12

Matthew 22:1-14

¹And Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying, ²“The kingdom of heaven has become like a man, a king, who made a wedding feast for his son. ³And he sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were not willing to come. ⁴Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look, I have prepared my dinner, my bulls and the fattened animals have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’ ⁵But they paid no attention and went off, one to his own field, another to his business; ⁶and the rest, seizing his slaves, treated them shamefully and killed them. ⁷The king was angered, and sending his troops, he destroyed those murderers and burned their city. ⁸Then he says to his slaves, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. ⁹So go to the places where the roads go out of the city, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding feast.’ ¹⁰And those slaves went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was filled with guests. ¹¹But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man not wearing a wedding garment. ¹²And he says to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without having a wedding garment?’ But he was speechless. ¹³Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind his feet and hands and throw him into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ ¹⁴For many are called, but few chosen.”

Luke 14:15-24

¹⁵And when one of those reclining at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Happy is whoever will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” ¹⁶But he said to him, “A certain man was giving a great dinner, and he invited many. ¹⁷And he sent his slave at the hour of the dinner to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ ¹⁸And they all began alike to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it; I ask you, have me excused.’ ¹⁹And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; I ask you, have me excused.’ ²⁰And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ ²¹And the slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ ²²And the slave said, ‘Master, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’ ²³And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out to the roads and hedges, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.’ ²⁴For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.”