Matthew 22:4

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Summary

Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

Other

Behold

1 Corinthians 5:7

And all

General references

Genesis 18:7

Bible References

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Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.

and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,

but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Behold

Wisdom has built her house,
She has hewn out her seven pillars;

“I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;
I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam.
I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;
I have drunk my wine and my milk.
Eat, friends;
Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

And all

Then he *said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

“They refused to listen,
And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You had performed among them;
So they became stubborn and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a God of forgiveness,
Gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness;
And You did not forsake them.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is ready now.’

General references

Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.