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22 Shortly afterward, the servant told him, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out, and some room is still available.’ 23 Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the open roads and along the hedgerows and compel people to come,[a] so that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you, not one of those who were invited shall taste my banquet.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 14:23 Compel people to come: they must be emphatic on the need to enter, but the Gospel excludes any coercion.