17/07/2026
PARABLE OF THE WEDDING BANQUET
Matthew 22:2-14 NIV
[2] “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
[3] He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
[4] “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
[5] “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business.
[6] The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
[7] The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
[8] “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
[9] So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’
[10] So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
[11] “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
[12] He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.
[13] “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
[14] “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
