3He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
3He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
2 "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
4 "Then he sent some 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.'
5 "But they paid no attention and went off--one to his field, another to his business.
22:3And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
22:3And he sent his servants, to call them that were invited to the marriage; and they would not come.
22:3and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the marriage feast: and they would not come.
22:3and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the wedding feast, and they would not come.
22:3and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the marriage feast: and they would not come.
22:3And sent his servants to call them that were invited to the wedding: and they would not come.
22:3and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
22:3and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.
22:3And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.