Matthew 22:9

Salvation The stranger and outcast

⁷ But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

⁸ Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
KJV: Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
WEB: Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’
ASV: Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.
DARBY: go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.
BLB: Therefore go on the thoroughfares of the roads and call to the wedding feast as many as you⁺ may find.’

ÅB: derfor skal dere gå ut i veikryssene og be alle dere finner til bryllupet!’
OTB: Gå derfor ut til hovedveiene og inviter så mange dere finner til festen.'
B1930: gå derfor ut på veiskjellene og be til bryllups så mange I finner!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Luke 14:21–24
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
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Mark 16:15–16
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
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Proverbs 1:20–23
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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Proverbs 9:4–6
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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Isaiah 55:1–3
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
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Luke 24:47
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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Acts 13:47
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
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Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
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