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Matthew 22:1-14\n\n22 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 \u201cThe 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.\n\n4 \u201cThen he sent some more servants and said, \u2018Tell 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.\u2019\n\n5 \u201cBut they paid no attention and went off\u2014one 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.\n\n8 \u201cThen he said to his servants, \u2018The 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.\u2019 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.\n\n11 \u201cBut when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He asked, \u2018How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?\u2019 The man was speechless.\n\n13 \u201cThen the king told the attendants, \u2018Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u2019\n\n14 \u201cFor many are invited, but few are chosen.\u201d