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Matthew 22:3
He sent his servants to tell. Custom was to invite the guests, then just before the Wedding feast, to send messengers to tell them to come.
He sent his servants to tell. Custom was to invite the guests, then just before the Wedding feast, to send messengers to tell them to come.
AND SENT FORTH HIS SERVANTS - These represent the messengers that God has sent to invite people to his kingdom. TO CALL THEM THAT WERE BIDDEN - That is, to give notice to those who had before been inv...
10. THE PARABLE OF THE MARRIAGE FEAST. The King's Answers and His Question. CHAPTER 22 1. The Parable of the Marriage Feast. (Matthew 22:1 .) 2. The Herodians Answered. (Matthew 22:15 .) 3. The Sad...
PARABLE(S) OF THE MESSIANIC BANQUET. This section is difficult, Matthew 22:1 has many resemblances to, but is not identical with, Luke 14:16. The two passages should be carefully compared; Lk.'s form,...
JOY AND JUDGMENT (Matthew 22:1-10)...
Jesus again answered them in parables: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like the situation which arose when a man who was a king arranged a wedding for his son. He sent his servants to summon those who had b...
SENT FORTH, &C. John, the Lord, and the Twelve. WERE BIDDEN. those who had been bidden. This bidding had been done by the prophets. For the custom of such. later "sending" compare Esther 5:8 with Est...
_sent forth his servants_ This was in accordance with Eastern custom. Cp. Esther 5:8; Esther 6:14. _servants_ Or SLAVES. In Matthew 22:13 a different Greek word is used for "servants....
Matthew 22:1-14. The Parable of the Royal Marriage Feast. Peculiar to St Matthew The parable recorded by St Luke (Luke 14:16-24), though similar to this in some respects, differs in its context and s...
THE PARABLE OF THE ROYAL MARRIAGE FEAST Peculiar to St Matthew The parable recorded by St Luke (Luke 14:16-24), though similar to this in some respects, differs in its context and special teaching an...
ἈΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ ΤΟῪΣ ΔΟΎΛΟΥΣ. This was in accordance with Eastern custom. Cp. Esther 5:8; Esther 6:14. ΟΥ̓Κ ἬΘΕΛΟΝ, ‘refused,’ the imperfect expresses the successive refusals: cp. singuli introducebantur,...
Ver 1. And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3. And sent forth his servants to c...
_THE MAN WITHOUT A WEDDING GARMENT MATTHEW 22:1-14_ : The man without a wedding garment stood speechless before the King. The message came "all things are ready, come to the wedding." Those that were...
ΆΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G649) посылать, отправлять с официальным поручением, ΚΑΛΈΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать, созывать. _Inf._ выражает цель, с которой они были посл...
DISCOURSE: 1388 THE MARRIAGE FEAST Matthew 22:2. _The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to th...
AND SENT FORTH HIS SERVANTS— It was sometimes customary to send two messages, as in the case here supposed, which represented the condescension the greater, and suited the repeated invitations given t...
SECTION 57 JESUS MEETS CHALLENGES OF AUTHORITY: THREE PARABLES OF WARNING D. THE PARABLE OF THE SLIGHTED MARRIAGE INVITATIONS TEXT: 22:1-14 Matthew 22:1 And Jesus answered and spake again in parables...
And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. AND SENT FORTH HIS SERVANTS (REPRESENTING ALL PREACHERS OF THE GOSPEL), TO CALL THEM THAT WERE BI...
31 See Luk_7:29-30. 32 See Mat_3:1; Luk_3:12. 32 The Lord now proceeds to show them His authority and to expose their abuse of the privileges entrusted to them. They were mere tenants of God's viney...
PARABLES OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE KING'S SON AND THE WEDDING GARMENT 1-14. Marriage of the King's Son (peculiar to St. Matthew). Jesus concludes His discourse by reiterating in still clearer and stronge...
HIS SERVANTS] i.e. Moses and the prophets, and especially the Baptist, the last and greatest prophet of the old dispensation. THEM THAT WERE BIDDEN] i.e. the Jews. 4, OTHER SERVANTS] i.e. the Apostles...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 22 THE STORY ABOUT THE WEDDING MEAL 22:1-14 V1 Jesus told them some more stories. V2 ‘Where God rules, it is like this’, he said. ‘A...
SENT FORTH HIS SERVANTS. — As in the parable of the Vineyard (Matthew 21:33), the servants represent the aggregate work of the prophets up to the time of the Baptist. The refusal of guests invited to...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
καλέσαι τοὺς κεκλημένους, to invite the already invited. This second invitation seems to accord with Eastern custom (Esther 6:14). The first invitation was given to the people of Israel by the prophet...
_The royal wedding_. This parable is peculiar to Mt., and while in some respects very suitable to the situation, may not unreasonably be suspected to owe its place here to the evangelist's habit of gr...
THE PENALTY OF SLIGHTING THE INVITATION Matthew 22:1-14 We have here a continuation of our Lord's teaching on that last great day in the Temple. This day seems to have begun with Matthew 21:23, and i...
The first two parables contained the history of the Hebrew nation up to the slaying of the Son. This one is prophetic. It presents the sin of this people in the light of the day of grace. The King sen...
His servants. John the Baptist and Christ himself, who took the form of a servant, to call such as had been formerly invited to the nuptials that were to be celebrated in his time. The Jews were invit...
CHAPTER 18 THE MARRIAGE OF THE KING'S SON Matthew 22:1-14. _“And Jesus, responding, again spoke to them in parables, saying: The kingdom of the heavens is like unto a kingly man, who made a marriage...
"And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, (2) The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, (3) And sent forth his servants to call t...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
_THE LAWS OF THE KINGDOM_ ‘The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they wou...
In chapter 22, their conduct with respect to the invitations of grace is presented in its turn. The parable is therefore a similitude of the kingdom of heaven. The purpose of God is to honour His Son...
AND SENT FORTH HIS SERVANTS,.... The ministers of the Gospel, who are the servants of the most high God, of his choosing and ordaining, of his calling and sending, and of his qualifying and employing,...
And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Ver. 3. _They would, not come_] They proved recusants, and this rendered them unworthy of eternal li...
_The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king_ That is, the dispensation of the gospel may be well illustrated by that which happened in the case of a king; _who made a marriage for his son_ Our...
HIS SERVANTS; those ministers of his who were first sent to invite the Jews to embrace the Messiah. WOULD NOT COME; representing their rejection of him and his salvation....
THE PARABLE OF THE MARRIAGE FEAST....
AND SENT FORTH HIS SERVANTS TO CALL THEM THAT WERE BIDDEN TO THE WEDDING; AND THEY WOULD NOT COME....
The parable of Chapter 21 has shown Israel as under law, responsible to return to God some results of the blessing with which He had entrusted them. Under responsibility they had not only failed, but...
1-14 The provision made for perishing souls in the gospel, is represented by a royal feast made by a king, with eastern liberality, on the marriage of his son. Our merciful God has not only provided...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 22:14"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV For He commissioned [messengers] to call people to the marriage, but they who did not obey Him deprived themselves of the royal supper.[626] Hippolytus Dogmatical a...
Matthew 22:3 and G2532 out G649 (G5656) his G846 servants G1401 call G2564 (G5658) invited G2564 ...
‘And sent forth his servants to call those who were bidden to the marriage feast, and they would not come.' The king then sends out the original invitations. It was quite normal in those days for a ge...
THE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST (22:1-14). The emphasis in this parable is on people's attitude towards the king's son, and in the final analysis on their attitude to Jesus, the true King's Son. The...
Matthew 22:3. HIS SERVANTS. In this prophetic parable, not the prophets but the first messengers of the gospel. TO CALL THEM THAT WERE BIDDEN. The Oriental custom was to invite twice: first to the fe...
Mark states (Matthew 12:12) that, after the parable of the wicked husbandmen the rulers ‘left Him and went their way; ‘hence this parable (peculiar to Matthew) was not spoken directly to the rulers. M...
TO CALL THEM THAT WERE BIDDEN (καλεσα τους κεκλημενους). "Perhaps an unconscious play on the words, lost in both A.V. and Rev.,TO CALL THE CALLED " (Vincent). It was a Jewish custom to invite a se...
Matthew 22:2 Our Lord's parable has fulfilled itself again and again in history, and will fulfil itself as long as foolish and rebellious persons exist on earth. This is one of the laws of the kingdom...
Matthew 22:1. _And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, And sent forth his servants to...
CONTENTS: Parable of the marriage feast. Jesus' answer to the Herodians. Sadducees and Pharisees. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, lawyer. CONCLUSION: The gospel call bids all to the great marriage feast. Som...
Matthew 22:2. _The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son._ The marriage of the heir apparent, giving stability to the throne, protection to the subject, and g...
_The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son._ MAKING LIGHT OF GOSPEL INVITATIONS I. When or how men slight the invitations of the gospel. 1. When they negle...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 22:3 THEY WOULD NOT COME. To refuse a direct invitation from the king would be an extreme insult and a challenge to his authority. ⇐
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 22:1 The parable of the WEDDING FEAST describes the judgment of irresponsible religious leaders (see note on 21:43)....
CHAPTER 22 _And Jesus answered_, &c., refuting the incredulity of the Scribes. The meaning is: it is the same in the kingdom of Heaven, _i.e._, in the Church militant here on earth, as if a king made...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 22:1. ANSWERED.—What? Obviously the unspoken murderous hate, restrained by fear, which had been raised in the rulers’ minds and flashed in their eyes, and moved in their gest...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 22:1 _Parable of the marriage of the king_'_s son. _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) MATTHEW 22:1 JESUS ANSWERED AND SPAKE UNTO THEM. After they had heard our Lord's words at the end...
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables (Matthew 22:1), Now He is still there, and He is laying on them these parables. And He said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king...
1 Samuel 9:13; Acts 13:45; Hebrews 12:25; Hosea 11:2; Hosea 11:7;...
To call them that were bidden [κ α λ ε σ α ι τ ο υ ς κ ε κ λ η μ ε ν ο υ ς]. Perhaps an unconscious play on the words, lost in both A. V. and Rev., to call the called. This was according to the Orient...
Them that were invited — Namely, the Jews....