Parable of the Great Banquet - wikipedia Parable of the Great Banquet Jan Luyken : the invitation, Bowyer Bible. Jan Luyken : the man without a wedding garment, Bowyer Bible. The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King 's Son is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew Matthew 22 : 1 - 14 and Luke Luke 14 : 15 - 24. It is not to be confused with a different Parable of the Wedding Feast recorded in Luke 's Gospel. Contents 1 Narrative 2 Interpretation 3 Art and hymnody 4 Music 5 See also 6 References Narrative The longer version of the parable is in Matthew : Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, `` The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. Again he sent out other servants, saying, ' Tell those who are invited, `` Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast ! '' ' But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. `` Then he said to his servants, ' The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were n't worthy. Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast. ' Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who did n't have on wedding clothing, and he said to him, ' Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing ? ' He was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, ' Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness ; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be. ' For many are called, but few chosen. '' -- Matthew 22 : 1 - 14, World English Bible Interpretation The eschatological image of a wedding also occurs in the parable of the Faithful Servant and the parable of the Ten Virgins. Here, it includes the extension of the original invitation ( to Jews ) to also include Gentiles. In Luke, the invitation is extended particularly to the `` poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame '' ( Luke 14 : 21 ), evidencing explicit concern for the `` poor and the outcasts. '' The targets of the parable are the already religious who have no time for God ; they are represented by the people who accepted an invitation, but when the food is ready, claim they are too busy to turn up. The issues is larger than no time for God, these people are living in open rebellion and contempt of who God is. The refusal of the invitation and the murder of the servants gives evidence of feelings about God or his followers. In Matthew, the parable immediately follows the parable of the Wicked Husbandmen, to which it is linked. This connection helps to explain the treatment of the man without wedding clothes. Some commentators suggest that the wedding clothes or garment in this parable were provided by the host, but this is unlikely to be the intended implication. Augustine of Hippo interpreted the garment as symbolizing charity, an interpretation not widely accepted even in medieval times. Martin Luther suggested that the garment represented Christ himself. John Calvin alluded to previous controversies in interpreting the meaning of the `` wedding garment '' : As to the wedding garment, is it faith, or is it a holy life ? This is a useless controversy ; for faith can not be separated from good works, nor do good works proceed from any other source than from faith. Christ intended only to state that the Lord calls us on the express condition of our being renewed by the Spirit... and that, in order to our remaining permanently in his house, we must put off the old man with his pollutions... and lead a new life. In the Gospel of Thomas, the parable `` becomes an exhortation against the affairs of business and a life of gain. '' Art and hymnody Parable of the Great Banquet by Brunswick Monogrammist ( circa 1525 ), location : National Museum, Warsaw The parable has been depicted by artists such as Bernardo Cavallino, Jan Luyken, and John Everett Millais. A number of Christian hymns have been inspired by the parable, such as `` All is ready '' by Fanny Crosby, and `` All Things are Ready '' by Charles H. Gabriel, which begins : `` All things are ready, '' come to the feast ! Come, for the table now is spread ; Ye famishing, ye weary, come, And thou shalt be richly fed. Music The topic was the prescribed reading for the Second Sunday after Trinity, for which Bach composed cantatas Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76 in 1723 and Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2 in 1724. See also Life of Jesus in the New Testament Luke 14 Matthew 22 Ministry of Jesus Parable of the Faithful Servant Parable of the Ten Virgins Parable of the Wedding Feast Cleanness References ^ Jump up to : Robert H. Stein, An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus, Westminster John Knox Press, 1981, ISBN 0 - 664 - 24390 - 8, pp. 82 - 91. ^ Jump up to : R.T. France, The Gospel According to Matthew : An introduction and commentary, Eerdmans, 1985, ISBN 0 - 8028 - 0063 - 7, pp. 312 - 313. ^ Jump up to : Bernard Brandon Scott, Hear Then the Parable : A commentary on the parables of Jesus, Fortress Press, 1989, ISBN 0 - 8006 - 2481 - 5, pp. 161 - 168. Jump up ^ Walvoord, John F. ( 1998 ). Matthew, Thy Kingdom Come : A Commentary on the First Gospel. Kregel Publications. Jump up ^ Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 45 on the New Testament Jump up ^ David Paul Parris, Reception Theory and Biblical Hermeneutics, Pickwick Publications, 2008, ISBN 1 - 55635 - 653 - 6, p. 250. Jump up ^ John Nicholas Lenker, The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther, 1905 ( reprinted by BiblioLife, 2009, ISBN 1 - 115 - 36364 - 6, p. 234 ) Jump up ^ John Calvin, Commentary on Matthew, Mark, Luke - Volume 2. Jump up ^ The Cyber Hymnal : All is Ready. Jump up ^ The Cyber Hymnal : All Things are Ready. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Invitation to the Great Banquet. 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