The Wedding Banquet

Bible texts

• Matthew 22:1-14
• Luke 14:15-24

Context

• Holy week
• Challenges from Pharisees
• Parables of the two sons / vineyard owner

The orginal invitees

• No entry right by birth (John 1:11-12)
• Active refusal with weak excuses (Luke 14:18-20)
• Rejection of the King (Acts 7:52-53)
• Modern-day Pharisees?

The actual participants

• Poor, crippled, blind, lame (Luke 14:21)
• Everyone is welcome (John 6:37)
• The lowly things of this world (1. Corinthians 1:27-29)

The wedding garment

• Come as you are…
• Speechless / no excuses (Romans 3:19)
• The righteousness of Christ

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires; you are being renewed in the spirit of your minds; you put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth. – Ephesians 4:22-24