Parable of the Wedding Feast

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The Parable of the Wedding Feast is a New Testament teaching of Jesus that uses a royal wedding banquet to illustrate God’s invitation to salvation and the consequences of rejecting it.

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instanceOf New Testament parable
biblical parable
teaching of Jesus
addressedTo chief priests and Pharisees
crowds in Jerusalem
alsoRelatedParable Luke 14:15–24
Parable of the Wedding Feast self-linksurface differs
surface form: Parable of the Great Banquet
canonicalStatus canonical New Testament text
centralTheme God’s invitation to salvation
inclusion of unexpected guests
judgment
necessity of proper response to grace
rejection of God’s invitation
containsSaying “Many are called, but few are chosen”
emphasizes consequences of rejecting God’s call
divine judgment on unfaithful
need for inner transformation, not mere attendance
urgency of responding to God’s invitation
foundIn Gospel of Matthew
Matthew 22:1–14
hasGenre parable
interpretedAs affirmation of inclusion of Gentiles
call to ethical and spiritual readiness
warning to religious leaders of Israel
languageOfComposition Koine Greek
literaryForm allegory
didactic story
narrativeSetting kingdom of heaven
partOf teachings of Jesus in Jerusalem
relatedConcept eschatological banquet
Kingdom of God
surface form: kingdom of God
spokenBy Jesus
symbolizes invited guests as original recipients of God’s covenant invitation
king as God
king’s son as Jesus Christ
later guests as Gentiles and outsiders
outer darkness as final judgment or exclusion
wedding banquet as kingdom of heaven
wedding garment as righteousness or proper preparedness
timeOfComposition 1st century AD
tradition Christianity
usedIn Christian catechesis
Christian liturgy
Christian preaching
usesSymbol invited guests
king
king’s son
outer darkness
royal wedding banquet
servants
wedding garment

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Parable of the Wedding Feast alsoRelatedParable Parable of the Wedding Feast self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Parable of the Great Banquet