“And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,”
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying. The continuing parabolic confrontation in the temple: the third parable of judgment — the Wedding Banquet — follows the two-sons parable and the wicked-tenants parable. The again communicates the sustained teaching in the face of the religious establishment's hostility.
Church Fathers on Matthew 22:1
Forasmuch as He had said, And it shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof,' He now proceeds to shew what nation that is.
'Answered,' that is, meeting their evil thoughts of putting Him to death.
This parable is related only by Matthew. Luke gives one like it, but it is not the same, as the order shews.
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