Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Matthew 22:10

"And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests." — Matthew 22:10 (ASV)

The situation having gone beyond that at normal wedding banquets, these shocking developments make their points that much more effectively. The king sends his servant to the forks of the roads, where they would find many people. They extend the king’s invitation to all and succeed in drawing in all kinds of people, “both good and bad.” The superior righteousness (5:20) believers must attain to enter the kingdom is not merely rigorous obedience to law. After all, this gospel promises a Messiah who saves his people from their sins (1:21; 20:28).