Matthew 22:10
8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.
9 Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
- KJV
- So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests.
- DARBY
- And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests.
- BLB
- And those servants, having gone out into the roads, gathered together all whom they found, both evil and good, and the wedding feast was filled with those reclining.
- ÅB
- Så gikk disse tjenerne ut på veiene og samlet sammen alle de fant – både onde og gode – og fylte bryllupshallen med gjester.
- OTB
- Så gikk tjenerne ut på gatene og samlet alle de fant, både onde og gode, og bryllupshallen ble fylt med gjester.
- B1930
- Så gikk da disse tjenere ut på veiene og fikk sammen alle dem de fant, både onde og gode, og bryllupshuset blev fullt av gjester.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
Read in context2 Corinthians 12:21
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
Read in contextMatthew 13:47–48
Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.
Read in contextRevelation 7:9
After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
Read in contextRevelation 19:6–9
And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
Read in contextRevelation 2:20–23
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Read in contextMatthew 22:11–12
But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
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