Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Go ye therefore to the crossings of the ways, and as many as ye may find, call to the wedding festivities.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
So go into the roads leading out of town and invite as many people as you can find to the wedding.'
American Standard Version
Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Now go to the main crossroads of the highways and invite everyone you find there to the wedding reception.'
Anderson New Testament
Go, therefore, to the cross-ways, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.
Bible in Basic English
Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.
Common New Testament
Go therefore to the highways, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.'
Daniel Mace New Testament
go therefore into the high streets, and as many as ye find, invite to the marriage:
Darby Translation
go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.
Godbey New Testament
Go ye therefore to crossings of the roads, and so many as you may find, invite to the marriage.
Goodspeed New Testament
So go out where the roads leave the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.'
John Wesley New Testament
Go ye therefore into the highways, and invite whomsoever ye find to the wedding-banquet.
Julia Smith Translation
Go ye, therefore, to the passages of the ways, and as many as ye should find, call to the nuptial feast.
King James 2000
Go you therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, go out to the [places where] the roads exit the city and invite to the wedding celebration as many [people] as you find.'
Modern King James verseion
Therefore go into the exits of the highways, and as many as you shall find, invite them to the marriage.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Go ye therefore out into the highways, and as many as ye find, bid them to the marriage.'
Moffatt New Testament
So go to the byeways and invite anyone you meet to the marriage-banquet.'
Montgomery New Testament
"'So go out into the partings of the highways, and summon everybody you find there to the wedding-feast.'
NET Bible
So go into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.'
New Heart English Bible
Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
Noyes New Testament
Go therefore into the thoroughfares, and as many as ye find, invite to the feast.
Sawyer New Testament
Go, therefore, to the crossings of the ways, and invite all you find to the wedding.
The Emphasized Bible
Be going, therefore, into the crossways of the roads, and, as many as ye shall find, call ye into the marriage-feast.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
go therefore into the thoroughfares of the roads, and as many as ye find, invite to the banquet.
Twentieth Century New Testament
So go to the cross-roads, and invite everyone you find to the banquet.'
Webster
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, invite to the marriage.
Weymouth New Testament
Go out therefore to the crossroads, and everybody you meet invite to the wedding.'
Williams New Testament
So go out to the country crossroads and invite everybody you find to my wedding reception.'
World English Bible
Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
Worrell New Testament
go, therefore, to the outlets of the highways; and as many as ye find, invite to the marriage feast.'
Worsley New Testament
go therefore into the public streets, and as many as ye meet with invite to the wedding.
Youngs Literal Translation
be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.
Themes
divine Call » For worship of God » Universal
God's Call » Examples of Leadership » Universality of
Jesus Christ » History of » Enunciates » The parable of the marriage banquet (in jerusalem)
Jesus Christ » Parables of » The arriage of the king's son
Kingdom of God » What the kingdom of God is likened to
Kingdom of heaven » Compared » To a king who made a marriage feast for his son
Parables » Parables of Christ » Marriage-feast
Universal » Blessing, possible » Call
Wicked people » Gospel invitation to, illustrated by the parables of » The marriage supper
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 22:9
Images Matthew 22:9
Prayers for Matthew 22:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Parable Of The Wedding Celebration
8 Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding is indeed ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. 9 Go ye therefore to the crossings of the ways, and as many as ye may find, call to the wedding festivities. 10 And those bondmen having departed into the roads, they gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was filled with those who were dining.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:20-23
Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places.
Proverbs 8:1-5
Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?
Proverbs 9:4-6
He who is simple, let him turn in here. As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
Isaiah 55:1-3
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come ye to the waters. And he who has no money, come ye, buy, and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.
Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows to and fro. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
Mark 16:15-16
And he said to them, Having gone into all the world, preach ye the good-news to the whole creation.
Luke 14:21-24
And that bondman, having come, he informed his lord these things. Then the house-ruler having become angry, he said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the thoroughfares and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and maimed and
Luke 24:47
and to proclaim in his name repentance and remission of sins for all the nations, having begun from Jerusalem.
Acts 13:47
For so the Lord has commanded us: I have placed thee for a light of Gentiles, for thee to be for salvation as far as the extremity of the earth.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good-news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he who hears, let him say, Come. And he who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.