22 And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying,

² The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made a wedding feast for his son,

³ and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the wedding feast, and they would not come.

⁴ Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast.

⁵ But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce.

⁶ And the rest, laying hold of his bondmen, ill-treated and slew [them].

⁷ And [when] the king [heard of it he] was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

⁸ Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy;

⁹ go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.

¹⁰ And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests.

¹¹ And the king, having gone in to see the guests, beheld there a man not clothed with a wedding garment.

¹² And he says to him, [My] friend, how camest thou in here not having on a wedding garment? But he was speechless.

¹³ Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

¹⁴ For many are called ones, but few chosen ones.