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Matthew 22
⁴ “So he sent other servants to tell them, ‘The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!’
⁵ But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business.
⁶ Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them.
⁷ “The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town.
⁸ And he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor.
⁹ Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’
¹⁰ So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.
¹¹ “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding.
¹² ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply.
¹³ Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
¹⁴ “For many are called, but few are chosen.”