'Invited' in the Bible

He sent out his slaves to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn’t want to come.

Again, he sent out other slaves, and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: Look, I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

“Then he told his slaves, ‘The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;

Then one of the Pharisees invited Him to eat with him. He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.

When the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching Him—she’s a sinner!”

After Jesus had said this, a Pharisee invited him to have a meal with him. So Jesus went and took his place at the table.

He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves:

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don’t recline at the best place, because a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by your host.

The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place.

“But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored in the presence of all the other guests.

He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.

Then He told him: “A man was giving a large banquet and invited many.

At the time of the banquet, he sent his slave to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will enjoy my banquet!’”

Jesus, however, invited them: “Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

The next day, having decided to leave Bethany and go into Galilee, Jesus found Philip, and invited him to follow Him.

Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

Joseph then invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, 75 people in all,

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Peter then invited them in and gave them lodging.The next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went with him.

On the following day he [and the others] entered Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, and had called together his relatives and close friends.

The people who lived there were unusually kind to us. It had started to rain and was cold, so they started a bonfire and invited us to join them around it.

There we found believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days.And so we came to Rome.

After one complete day he invited the leading men among the Jews to meet him; and, when they were come together, he said to them, "As for me, brethren, although I had done nothing prejudicial to our people or contrary to the customs of our forefathers, I was handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the power of the Romans.

For these reasons, then, I have invited you here, that I might see you and speak to you; for it is for the sake of Him who is the hope of Israel that this chain hangs upon me."

and you also are among those who are called of Jesus Christ to belong to Him;

Only, let each one live the life which the Lord has assigned him, and to which God has called him [for each person is unique and is accountable for his choices and conduct, let him walk in this way]. This is the rule I make in all the churches.

I am astonished and extremely irritated that you are so quickly shifting your allegiance and deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different [even contrary] gospel;

This [deceptive] persuasion is not from Him who called you [to freedom in Christ].

Then he said to me, “Write: Those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb are fortunate!” He also said to me, “These words of God are true.”