And he said to him: friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment? And he was speechless. The friend address — formal, not intimate — and the question about the garment are the king's confrontation of the man's choice. The speechless response communicates that there is no defense for the refusal of the provided garment: no words can justify the deliberate rejection of what the host offered.

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