MATTHEW 22:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.”
And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests. The gathering of both bad and good from the roads mirrors the net that gathered every kind of fish (Matthew 13:47): the invitation goes to everyone, and both bad and good come. The filling of the wedding hall communicates the success of the mission: those who refused are absent; those who accepted fill the space.
Church Fathers on Matthew 22:9
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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