2. The Malchut HaShomayim is like a man, a Melech (King), who prepared a feast for the chasunoh (wedding) of Bno.
3. And the Melech sent out his servants to summon the Bnei HaChuppah (wedding invitees--Mt 9:15) to the chasunoh, and they did not want to come.
4. Again, the Melech sent out other servants, saying, Tell the Bnei HaChuppah, the wedding invitees, Hinei! My Seudah I have prepared, my oxen and fattened calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready: Come to the chasunoh!
5. But the Bnei HaChuppah, the chasunoh invitees, having treated it all as a mere trifle, departed, one to his farmer's field, one to his business.
6. Meanwhile, the others seized the Mesharetim HaMelech (Ministers of the King) and abused them and killed them.
7. So the Melech was angry and, having sent his armies, the King destroyed those ratzchaniyot (murderers), and their city he burned.
8. Then the King says to his ministers, The chasunoh is ready, but the invited ones were not worthy.
9. Therefore, go to the intersections of the streets, and, whoever you find, invite as muzmanim (guests) to the chasunoh.
10. And having gone out to the highways, those ministers congregated everyone they found, rah and tov, and the chasunoh was filled with muzmanim (guests).
11. And the Melech, having entered to see the ones sitting bimesibba (reclining at tish), spotted there a man lacking the attire proper for the chasunoh [see Yn 3:3,5].
12. And the Melech says to him, Chaver, how did you get in here, not having the attire proper for the chasunoh? But the man had nothing to say.
13. Then the King said to the servants, Bind him feet and hands and expel him into the outer choshech, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
14. For the invited ones are many, but the nivcharim (chosen ones) are few.
15. Then, having departed, the Perushim took counsel together so that they might entrap Yehoshua in his own words.