The wedding (ο γαμος). But Westcott and Hort rightly read here ο νυμφων, marriage dining hall. The same word in 9:15 means the bri…

Bad and good. All descriptions of people. None are good by nature; if they were, they would not need the gospel. But some are worse than o…

Both bad and good — The words imply two points, as in the parable of the Drag-net (Matthew 13:47–48):

1. The…

This is the glorious rule of the gospel still. Those who were first invited to the great wedding feast were the Jews; they would not come, and ther…

St. John Chrysostom: Since He had said, And it shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof, He now p…

The situation having gone beyond that at normal wedding banquets, these shocking developments make their points that much more effectively. The kin…

So these servants went out into the highways Turned from the Jews, and went among the Gentiles, preaching the Gospel to t…

The provision made for perishing souls in the gospel is represented by a royal feast made by a king, with great liberality, on the marriage of his …

It was said above that Christ’s persecutors were provoked to kill Him for three reasons: His glory, His wisdom (by which He was confounding them), …