The parable of the wedding banquet – many are invited but few are chosen (Matthew 22:1 – 22:14)
Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again in parables. He told them: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.Then he sent more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’But they paid no attention and went off – one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized the servants, mistreated them, and killed them.The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed the murderers and burned their city.Then