Matthew 22:4
Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.
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3And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.
5But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:17And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
Proverbs 9:1Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.
Matthew 21:36Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.
Luke 10:1Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
Luke 24:46And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;
Acts 1:8But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 22:2-15
The Parable of the Marriage Feast. 1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it,… Read the whole commentary →