Then he sent other servants, saying, Tell them that are invited, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready; come to the wedding.

Then saith he to his servants, The feast is ready, but they that were invited were not worthy of it:

but this ye know, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broke open: therefore be ye also ready;

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the wedding-feast, and then the door was shut.