Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn, can they, as long as they have the bridegroom with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

"'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not beat your breasts.'

And while they were going to buy it, the bridegroom came, and the bridesmaids that were ready went in with him to the wedding reception; and the door was closed.

"The kingdom of heaven is like a king, who gave a wedding reception for his son.

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the wedding reception, but they refused to come.

A second time he sent other slaves, and said to them, 'Tell the invited guests that I have my reception all ready, my bullocks and fatlings are butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding reception!'

After that he said to his slaves, 'My wedding reception is ready, but those invited have proved unworthy.

So go out to the country crossroads and invite everybody you find to my wedding reception.'

But when the king came in to take a look at the guests, he saw there a man who did not have on a wedding suit.

So he said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding suit on?' But his lips were sealed.