Matthew 22.1. Then when He answered, Y’shua again spoke to them in Parables saying, 2. “The Kingdom of the Heavens is like a man, a king, who made a marriage feast for his son. 3. And he sent his servants to call those invited to the feast, but they did not want to come. 4. Again he sent other servants saying, ‘You must say to those invited, “Behold I have prepared my meal, since my bulls and fattened calves have been killed, indeed everything is prepared: come to the marriage feast.”’ 5. But they, who did not care, left, one on the one hand to his own field, and another to his business: 6. then after the rest seized his servants they insulted and they killed them. 7. And the king was angered and having sent his soldiers he destroyed those murderers, and he set their city on fire. 8. Then he said to his servants, ‘On one hand the feast is prepared, but on the other those who have been invited were not worthy: 9. therefore you must go on the streets of the way and whomever you would find you must invite to the feast.’ 10. And those servants went out on the roads and they gathered together all those whom they found, both evil and good: then the feast was filled with those reclining. 11. But when the king entered to see those who were reclining, he saw there a man not wearing a wedding garment, 12. and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you enter here not having a wedding garment?’ But he was silent. 13. Then the king said to his servants, ‘After you bind his feet and hands you must cast him into the furthest darkness: in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.’ 14. For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
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