³ and ^(A)sent his servants^[a] to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. ^4 (B)Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my ^(C)dinner, ^(D)my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ ⁵ But ^(E)they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ⁶ while the rest seized his servants, ^(F)treated them shamefully, and ^(G)killed them. ⁷ The king was angry, and he sent his troops and ^(H)destroyed those murderers and burned their city. ⁸ Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not ^(I)worthy. ⁹ Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ ¹⁰ And those servants went out into the roads and ^(J)gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.

¹¹ “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there ^(K)a man who had no wedding garment. ¹² And he said to him, ^(L)‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. ¹³ Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and ^(M)cast him into the outer darkness. In that place ^(N)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ ¹⁴ For many are ^(O)called, but few are ^(P)chosen.”

⁷ Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁸ Let us therefore celebrate the festival, ^(A)not with the old leaven, ^(B)the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

¹⁶ But he said to him, ^(A)“A man once ^(B)gave a great banquet and invited many. ¹⁷ And at the time for the banquet he ^(C)sent his servant^[a] to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

¹⁶ When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ^(A)steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon.”