But I say to you that many will come from east and west and {be seated at the banquet} with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

"The Kingdom of Heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honor of his son's wedding.

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the banquet, but they were unwilling to come.

A second time he sent some servants, with orders to say to those who had been invited 'I have prepared my breakfast, my cattle and fat beasts are killed and everything is ready; come to the banquet.'

Then he said to his servants 'The banquet is prepared, but those who were invited were not worthy.

So go to the cross-roads, and invite everyone you find to the banquet.'

And those servants went out into the roads, and brought together all, as many as they found, both bad and good: and the banquet-room was filled with guests.

But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom came; and the bridesmaids who were ready went in with him to the banquet, and the door was shut.

And a suitable day came when Herod, on his birthday, gave a banquet for his courtiers and military tribunes and the most prominent [men] of Galilee.

Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them.

"and be yourselves like men who are looking for the Lord, on his return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they may at once open the door for him.

People will come from East and West, and from North and South, and take their places at the banquet in the Kingdom of God.

"When you are invited by any one to a wedding banquet, do not seat yourself in the best place, for fear that some one of higher rank should have been invited by your host;

And he also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you [in return], and repayment come to you.

But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

One of the other guests heard this, and said to him, "Blessed is the man who shall be at the banquet in the Kingdom of God!"

But he said to him, "A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.

And he sent his slave at the hour of the banquet to say to those who have been invited, 'Come, because now it is ready!'

For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!'"

"There was once a rich man who habitually arrayed himself in purple and fine linen, and enjoyed a splendid banquet every day,

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

These are in your feasts of love, as sunken rocks; though joining in your banquet, they feed themselves fearlessly; clouds without water carried about by the winds; trees untimely withering, fruitless, twice dead, rooted up;

And he said to me, "Write: Blessed [are] those who are invited to the banquet of the wedding celebration of the Lamb!" And he said to me, "These are the true words of God."

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and shouting in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in midair, "Come! Gather for God's great banquet,