'Wedding' in the Bible
and sent his servants to call the invited guests to the wedding, but they were unwilling to come.
"Again he sent other servants with a message to those who were invited. "'My breakfast is now ready," he said, 'my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and every preparation is made: come to the wedding.'
Then he said to his servants, "'The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited were unworthy of it.
Go out therefore to the crossroads, and everybody you meet invite to the wedding.'
"'My friend,' he said, 'how is it that you came in here without a wedding robe?'
"So they went to buy. But meanwhile the bridegroom came; those bridesmaids who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet; and the door was shut.
"Can a wedding party fast while the bridegroom is among them?" replied Jesus. "So long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is impossible.
and be yourselves like men waiting for their master--on the look-out till he shall return from the wedding feast--that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door instantly.
"When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,
Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,