Matthew 22:1-12 ▼

1 And Iesus aunswered, and spake vnto them againe by parables, and sayde:

2 The kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto a man that was a kyng, which made a mariage for his sonne.

3 And sent foorth his seruauntes, to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they woulde not come.

4 Agayne, he sent foorth other seruauntes, saying: Tell them which are bidden, beholde, I haue prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fatlynges are kylled, and all thynges are redy: come vnto the mariage.

5 But they made lyght of it, and went their wayes, one to his farme, another to his marchaundize:

6 And the remnaunt toke his seruauntes, and entreated them spitefully, and slewe them.

7 But when the kyng hearde therof , he was wroth, and sent foorth his men of warre, and destroyed those murtherers and brent vp their citie.

8 Then sayde he to his seruauntes, the mariage in dede is prepared: But they which were bidden, were not worthy.

9 Go ye therfore out into the hye wayes: and as many as ye fynde, bid them to the mariage.

10 And the seruauntes went out into the hye wayes, and gathered together all, as many as they coulde fynde, both good and bad: and the weddyng was furnished with ghestes.

11 Then the kyng came in, to see the ghestes: and whe he spyed there a man, which had not on a weddyng garmet,

12 He sayde vnto hym: frende, howe camest thou in hyther, not hauyng a weddyng garment? And he was euen speachlesse.