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Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
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A Universal Invitation
Commentators explain that the servants going to the "highways" symbolizes the gospel's expansion to all people, particularly the Gentiles, after its initial rejection. The command to gather "all as many as they found" underscores the universal and non-exclusive nature of God's invitation. The mission of the church is to go where the people are and invite everyone to the feast.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Both bad and good — The words imply two points, as in the parable of the Drag-net (Matthew 13:47–48):
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Baptist
So those went out into the highways. They did as they were told. This was the disciples’ warrant for doing what must at first have seemed very stra…
The situation having gone beyond that at normal wedding banquets, these shocking developments make their points that much more effectively. The kin…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So these servants went out into the highways Turned from the Jews, and went among the Gentiles, preaching the Gospel to t…
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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 …
13th Century
Catholic
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), …
