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Matthew 22:1-14
\nOnce more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: 2 \u201cThe kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, \u2018Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.\u2019 5 But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, 6 while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his slaves, \u2018The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.\u2019 10 Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
\n11 \u201cBut when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, 12 and he said to him, \u2018Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?\u2019 And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, \u2018Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u2019 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.\u201d
\nFrom the New Revised Standard Version<\/a>. Reprinted with permission from HarperBibles.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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