"The Kingdom of Heaven was likened to a man?? king??ho made a marriage feast for his son.

And he sent forth his servants to call those who had been invited to the marriage feast, and they were not willing to come.

"Again he sent forth other servants, saying, 'Say to those who have been invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and fatlings have been slain, and all things are ready: come to the marriage feast.'

Then he says to his servants, 'The marriage feast, indeed is ready; but those who had been invited were not worthy;

go, therefore, to the outlets of the highways; and as many as ye find, invite to the marriage feast.'

And, while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the ready ones went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut.

But they said, "Not during the feast, lest an uproar might arise among the people."

And at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired;