MATTHEW 22:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.”
But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. The third movement of the parable: within the diverse gathered crowd, one man has no wedding garment. The wedding garment was typically provided by the host — so the man's absence of garment communicates a deliberate refusal of the host's provision, not poverty.
Church Fathers on Matthew 22:10
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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