Matthew 22:9

Therefore, go out to the ways, and call whomever you will find to the wedding.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

In Context

8Then he said to his servants: ‘The wedding, indeed, has been prepared. But those who were invited were not worthy.

10And his servants, departing into the ways, gathered all those whom they found, bad and good, and the wedding was filled with guests.

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Cross References

Proverbs 8:1Does not wisdom call out, and prudence bestow her voice?

Isaiah 55:1All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter.

Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon stood at the fork, at the head of the two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows; he inquired of idols, and he consulted entrails.

Mark 16:15And he said to them: “Go forth to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.

Luke 24:47and, in his name, for repentance and the remission of sins to be preached, among all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Ephesians 3:8Although I am the least of all the saints, I have been given this grace: to evangelize among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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 →

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