The Reverend Harold A. Linn, Pastor

Parable of the Wedding Banquet - Matthew 22:8-14

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Theme: Parable of the Wedding Banquet

Text: Matthew 22:8-14

Date: October 09, 2005

21st Sunday after Pentecost

   The Parable of the Wedding Banquet

   ⁸"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. ⁹Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' ¹⁰So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

    ¹¹"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. ¹²'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.

    ¹³"Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

    ¹⁴"For many are invited, but few are chosen."

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