And Jesus said to them, The sons of the wedding hall cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

The kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a king who made a wedding for his son.

And he sent forth his bondmen to call those who were invited to the wedding festivities, and they did not want to come.

Again he sent forth other bondmen, saying, Speak to those who were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding festivities.

Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding is indeed ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

Go ye therefore to the crossings of the ways, and as many as ye may find, call to the wedding festivities.

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.

But when the king came in to see those who were dining, he saw there a man who was not clothed with a wedding garment.

And he says to him, Friend, how did thou come in here not having a wedding garment? But he was speechless.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And the prepared entered in with him for the wedding festivities, and the door was shut.