The king responds with judgment of those invited. And why, when confronted about his street attire, didn’t this pitiful guest explain his plight? In Luke the story starts with "a certain man," but here it is the King. He sends his servants out into the streets to invite all that they could find, whether good or bad. The Parable of The Wedding Banquet’ is about saying Yes to God’s invitation to lead a life worthy of heaven. They’re acceptable in the presence of Father God only, when people accept the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. In this parable, Jesus told his hearers that their own “garment” — their self-righteousness — simply wasn’t good enough. The surprising message in Jesus’ parable of the wedding banquet is that those invited rejected the king’s invitation. Please excuse me. The guest who showed up, inappropriately dressed, didn’t deserve to stay. The imagery of a wedding banquet turns to the serious message when the man without the proper wedding clothes is not merely thrown out of the banquet, but is bound hand and foot, and cast into darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. 19) but also in the Rabbinic Literature. Again and again Jesus called them to come and follow him and he would give them eternal rest. But since this is a call from the King, from God Himself, the people are not free to take it or leave it, even if they think they can be non-committal. At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, \"Come, for everything is now ready.\"\"But they all alike began to make excuses. Matthew 22:1-14 – The Parable of the Wedding Banquet Summary Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is compared to a king who gives a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.’” Jesus is following up His answer to the Pharisees and chief priests from the previous chapter. The special wedding garment is provided by the King himself to all who agree to wear it. But the occasions are different and the accounts have important distinctions. Since this parable follows the triumphant entry and precedes the teachings of Jesus on the signs of the end times delivered on the Mount of Olives (called the Olivet Discourse, Matthew 24, 25) on the Wednesday of the Passion Week, the experts in the chronology of the Gospels put this time of controversy on Wednesday morning (along with all of Matthew 21:19b through 23:37-39; see the chronology chart at the end of this lesson). For many more of Warren’s “Parables” commentaries. B. Each passage fits its context very well, and so if one were to conclude that it was originally one story, there would have to have been significant editing to make the parable work in the contexts. In Luke there is one invitation, but here there are two. In the year 33 A.D., Passover, the 14th of Nisan, came on Friday (actually started Thursday evening and continued through Friday), so Jesus died on what we now call Good Friday. Today, everyone we know and don’t know has also been invited into The King’s kingdom. The King invites others to the wedding feast but expels those who do not prepare properly for it (22:8-13). Because the ones who were invited refused to come, the king now turns to others. In Luke the invited guests make excuses, but here they refuse and turn violent. However, the bridegroom is delayed in coming, and so both groups fall asleep while waiting.Suddenly, the ten bridesmai… The parable says that the King gave a wedding banquet for his Son. 12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless. So this would be the beginning of the days of feasting. Reading: Matthew 22:1-14. 5 But they paid no attention and went off--one to his field, another to his business. If there are similar stories, we need to notice the differences as much as the similarities. 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.". After the feast is prepared, the host sends a servant to give notice to those invited that all is ready. The Wedding Feast Parable Explained The Wedding Feast. Their unbelief in him lay behind their refusal. The host is a king in Matthew, "a certain man" in Luke. The outcome and its implications are left for us to judge. Similarly, we, too, can be people who’ll be excluded from the kingdom of heaven because of our own wrong, self-motivated choices. He is the author of Introducing Biblical Hebrew and Grammar, Holiness to the Lord: A Guide to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus, Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposit... More, 4. The King addressed him as "Friend"--but do not be mislead by this word in Jesus’ teaching, for when he called someone "friend" it was always in an ironic sense and a word of judgment followed. But in the story this was not any king, but the King of Glory. II. He sent other messengers out to invite them again. This is a parable. That is adding quite a bit to the parable, and such an addition is not necessary. Nobody, that’s who, except for the people in this parable. B. 8-10). The anticipated union with Christ in glory is portrayed by John as a marriage supper (Rev. This parable isn’t about just any wedding; it is about a King who invites his special guests to wedding banquet of his son. The king’s wedding invitation had been extended to anyone and everyone — total strangers, both good and bad. 11-13). But a lot of modern commentators think that this parable and the one in Luke 14:16-24 are two separate tellings of the same tradition. Sadly, for no apparent reason, many people refuse God’s generous invitation to enjoy and become a part of his kingdom. At the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011, the royal family spent $34 million and invited 1,900 guests. "The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come’." The differences between Matthew and Luke are significant though. The King extends his gracious invitation again, although this time he makes it even more appealing. Jesus spoke this parable to show them (and every parable reader today) what the kingdom of heaven will be like when the end of the age comes. It is most likely that this parable was a separate story, not a re-telling of the one in Luke, although in some ways the two are similar. Shocking! To those who refused his invitation, the king “sent his army and burned their city.” And, those who dressed inappropriately were “tied hand and foot, and thrown outside into the darkness.” Everyone, without exception, had received a free invitation to the king’s banquet. They often lasted for days, up to a week. The imagery in the New Testament does not focus on God’s relation to a nation in general, but on the special relationship between Christ and true believers. As a result, the King’s (capital “K”) vengeful reprisal against the murderers speaks of the desolation mentioned in the book of Revelation. 22 1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 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. But then Jesus began to turn to the Gentiles, and as many as believed in him would enter the kingdom in the place of the others, even if the ones who believed were formerly prostitutes and sinners rather than scholars and sages. Second, Matthew integrates into the last third of this parable the suggestion of a second parable, that of the Badly Dressed Guest. 3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. 11“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. Several things should be noticed from this parable which Jesus told in response to a dinner guest’s pious sounding but hypocritical and insincere reaction to Jesus’ teaching on ambition and humility (Lk 14:7-15). Before we dig deeply into the aspects and meaning of this parable, let’s look at how Jesus introduced it to the chief priests, Israelite elders, teachers of the Law, and Pharisees who’d been challenging him all though chapter 21. Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 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 22:1–14 and Luke 14:15–24 . Not only did they reject it, but they killed the messengers who came to invite them to the wedding. Israel represents those invitees who’d been invited into the kingdom, but, when the time actually came for the kingdom to appear, they refused to believe that Jesus was Messiah. The murdered servants represent the multitude of prophets, including John the Baptist, who’d been killed by Israelites. These special guests would be the Israelites who were expecting the Messiah; they claimed to be closely related to the King, God. Seriously click the link, spend 2 minutes reading it, then come back and finish this article. The only reason they reject the invitation is that they do not believe the King, or they do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God. But the man was “speechless,” which indicated that he wasn’t innocent. When asked how he came to be there without the furnished attire, the man had no answer and was promptly ejected from the feast “outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (vv. More people will reject the invitation or fail to meet the requirement of faith in Christ than those who are chosen, that is, those who truly believe and enter the kingdom. The violent and harsh conclusion of the story sets this parable apart for the one in Luke. The parable ends with a short maxim (v. 14). 8“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Today’s Parable of the Wedding Banquet is rather straight forward. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.\" (Matthew 25:1-2)The wise bridesmaids take oil with their lamps, and the foolish bridesmaids only take lamps, with no oil. The Parable of the Wedding Banquet: An Exposition of Matthew 22:1-14. In this context the opposition to Jesus had grown violent; and Jesus warned his enemies of the coming judgment they would receive. When those invited refuse and mistreat his servants, the king invites all to fill the banquet hall. Why was he “speechless”? I promise it will still be here. 4–5). The matter of the wedding garment is instructive. A. The King had the man tied and cast out into the darkness, where there would be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Here we see the true nature of a parable--it is an extended simile. In Matthew 22:1–14, Jesus tells a parable about a wedding feast. Matthew’s parable is harsher than Luke’s, but then it comes later in Jesus ministry in Matthew, at a time when he was facing severe opposition from the Jewish leaders. 11–14). The poor whom we know today are often inarticulate, especially when confronted with threats and blustering of powerful people. Then he tells his servants to “go to the … In fact, the king’s servants who’d brought the joyful message to the multitudes were mistreated and even killed by those whom he’d invited (v. 6). 12–13). One is amazed that the invitation needed to be repeated at all! The closing portion presents an expulsion based on presumption. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The identification of 33 A.D. for the crucifixion is based on all the data, but especially the notice that John the Baptist began ministering in the 15th year of Tiberius, which was 29 A.D. Jesus’ ministry covered four Passovers including the one in which he was betrayed and crucified. Even if one is poor, there is pressure to put on a good show. So, who’s who in Christ Jesus’ parable? Those who continually refuse the invitation become violent (22:4-6). For help in this section, one need only look at the end of Matthew 23 to get the point: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing" (Matt. But he found a man who was not wearing the proper wedding clothes. In reply, Jesus tells the Parable of the Great Banquet. 6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them (Matthew 22:1–6). That person was “bound hand and foot, and cast into outer darkness.” His offense? This is one parable that you won’t find presented to children in their Sunday school curriculum. The parable’s king is Father God. The wedding banquet was one of the most joyous occasions in Jewish life and could last for up to a week. Those Jesus refers to as "chosen" are the people who respond to the invitation to come, and respond in the proper manner so that they are prepared to enter the kingdom. For many reasons, but one primarily, the Jewish people did not accept Jesus as their Messiah when he came and extended to them the invitation to come to him (Matt. Although, like many parables, the story doesn’t state its point directly, the guests’ “clothes” represent their spiritual condition. Our “best clothes” are the clothes that God gives us to wear for him.Â. I. 3He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. And Matthew describes both bad endings using similar language. In New Testament times, a wedding … The parable will focus on who responds properly to the call. And so, just as Jesus explained in the last section, the kingdom would be taken from them and given to a people bearing fruit. The parable teaches that it is one thing to affirm biblical truth and another thing to live it. The Parable of the Wedding Banquet 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. In this parable, Jesus compares heaven to a wedding banquet that a king had prepared for his son (v. 2). But these guests refused to come (they persistently refused, the tense is imperfect). We saw in our last lesson that the proud are humbled and the humble are exalted. This parable is similar in some ways to the Parable of the Great Banquet (Luke 14:15–24). It should remind us that we’re called to obey God and that our human righteousness will never be perfect. In this last section we have sub-points that we can use: the wider invitation (vv. Click the list or the “bird” to enlarge and use Warren’s list of forty-four of Jesus’ parables (a PDF file with links). The word used technically refers to a morning meal, like a breakfast but eaten mid-morning. In Luke it is a great supper, but here it is a wedding banquet. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. But the point of this comparison will be the details of the story to follow, answering what there is about the wedding banquet image that was intended by Jesus to describe the kingdom. The parable tells how the King arrived to see the guests who wanted to be at the wedding feast for the Son. 11-13). Many people had been invited. The opening part of this parable describes the rejection of an invitation. Humans have nothing proper of their own to wear; after all, “all our righteous acts are like filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6). It is not to be confused with a different Parable of the Wedding Feast recorded in Luke's Gospel. Matthew 22:1-14 – The Parable of the Wedding Banquet Summary Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is compared to a king who gives a wedding banquet for his son. The focus of the parable is on the wedding banquet of the Son. “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”, "The Wedding Feast" circa 1620, painted by Pieter Breughel the Younger [Public domain]. 2. That’s why we are commanded to “Clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 13:14) for it’s God himself who is “the Lord our righteousness” (Jeremiah 33:1). As Apostle Paul put it, we should “be found in him, not having a righteousness of [our] own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ — the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith” (Philippians 3:9). The Jewish religious leaders had been questioning Jesus’ authority to teach in the temple. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. God invites everyone to his banquet, so that we may share in his joy. He came into the world to seek and save that which was lost, not those who had rigorously kept the Law (or who said they did) and could claim to have the righteousness to enter the Messianic banquet. He made it clear that the only way they would ever see the kingdom of heaven was by him. We can leave the symbolism a bit general and just say that the man did not prepare properly to act on the invitation he received. The meaning of this parable in the context of the Lord’s Passion Week, in which he was to be betrayed and crucified, is pretty clear--it condemns the contempt that Israel as a whole (and everyone in general) had (and has) for God’s gracious invitation through Jesus the Messiah. See the list of all 44 parables with links. In our story The King wanted to know how the man got in without the proper attire, but the man was speechless, a sign of his guilt. But that may be pushing the symbol a little too much in this story. Happy New Year: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives, 4. 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. The king’s son who’s being honored at the banquet is Jesus Christ, who “came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him” (John 1:11). The result? The Parable of the Wedding Feast is one of the parables of Jesus and appears in the New Testament in Luke 14:7-14.It directly precedes the Parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14:15-24. \"Jesus replied: 'A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 21:2, 9). Therefore, we’re expected to wear appropriate spiritual “clothing” rather than what we deem correct. The details of that banquet, or the New Testament’s marriage supper of the Lamb, cannot be pressed too much since the circumstances are different, as we shall see. 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