and be like men that are waiting for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that, when he comes and knocks, they may open for him immediately.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man that had not put on a wedding-robe.

And he said to him, Friend, how came you in hither without a wedding-robe? And he was silent.

When you are invited by any one to a wedding, do not recline in the first place, lest a more honorable man than you may have been invited by him;