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Again he sent forth other servants, saying, `Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast."`
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God's Patient Invitation
Commentators highlight that the king sends a second set of servants, demonstrating God's incredible patience and persistent grace. Rather than giving up after the first rejection, God sends new messengers with an even more detailed and urgent invitation. This reflects His desire to give people every opportunity to accept His offer of salvation, leaving them without excuse.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Other servants: who might press it on their attention. So God repeats his message to sinners, when they reject it.
My …
My dinner (το αριστον μου). It is breakfast, not dinner. In Lu 14:12 both αριστον (breakfast) and δειπνον (dinner) are used. This …
19th Century
Anglican
My dinner—The Greek word points to a morning meal, as contrasted with the “supper,” or evening meal; but, like all such words (for…
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Baptist
Again he sent forth other servants—
Perhaps, in the kindness of his heart, he thought that the first servants, whom he sent, were so…
The king not only graciously repeats his invitation but describes the feast’s greatness in order to provide an incentive to attend it. Large weddin…
16th Century
Protestant
Again he sent other servants. He speaks as if it had been the same persons who were invited, for it was one body of the people. The meanin…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Again he sent forth other servants The seventy disciples, and other ministers of the Gospel, as Barnabas and Saul, a…
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), …
