Luke 14:16-24. THE PARABLE OF THE GREAT SUPPER. The force of the parable, as an answer to the guest is this: ‘What advantage can it be that you, with all your seeming enthusiasm, praise the happiness of those who eat bread in the kingdom of God, if you and those like you, although you are invited, refuse to come.' The parable of the wedding of the King's son (Matthew 22:2-14), delivered later, is much stronger than this one, bringing out more fully the thought of judgment.

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