Old Testament

New Testament

Matthew 22:6-14 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

6. Others grabbed the servants, then beat them up and killed them.

7. This made the king so furious that he sent an army to kill those murderers and burn down their city.

8. Then he said to the servants, “It is time for the wedding banquet, and the invited guests don't deserve to come.

9. Go out to the street corners and tell everyone you meet to come to the banquet.”

10. They went out into the streets and brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike. And the banquet room was filled with guests.

11. When the king went in to meet the guests, he found that one of them wasn't wearing the right kind of clothes for the wedding.

12. The king asked, “Friend, why didn't you wear proper clothes for the wedding?” But the guest had no excuse.

13. So the king gave orders for that person to be tied hand and foot and to be thrown outside into the dark. That's where people will cry and grit their teeth in pain.

14. Many are invited, but only a few are chosen.

Read complete chapter Matthew 22