Matthew 22:4-14 Agayne, he sent forth other seruauntes, and sayde: Tell the gestes: Beholde, I haue prepared my dynner, myne oxen and my fed catell are kylled, and all thinges are readye, come to the mariage.

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ Agayne, he sent forth other seruauntes, and sayde: Tell the gestes: Beholde, I haue prepared my dynner, myne oxen and my fed catell are kylled, and all thinges are readye, come to the mariage. ⁵ But they made light of it, and wente their wayes: one to his hussbandrye, another to his marchaundise. ⁶ As for the remnaut, they toke his seruauntes, and intreated the shamefully, and slew the. ⁷ When the kynge herde that, he was wroth, and sent forth his warryers, and destroyed those murtherers, and set fyre vpon their cite. ⁸ Then sayde he vnto his seruauntes: The mariage in dede is prepared, but the gestes were not worthy. ⁹ Go youre waye out therfore in to ye hye wayes, and as many as ye fynde, byd them to the mariage. ¹⁰ And the seruauntes wete out in to the hye wayes, and gathered together as many as they coulde fynde, both good and bad, & the tables were all full. ¹¹ Then the kynge wete in, to se the gestes, and spyed there a man that had not on a weddynge garment, ¹² and sayde vnto him: Frende, how camest thou in hither, & hast not on a weddyinge garment? And he was euen spechlesse. ¹³ Then sayde the kynge vnto his seruauntes: Take and bynde him hande and fote, & cast him into ye vtter darcknes: there shal be waylinge and gnasshinge of teth. ¹⁴ For many be called, but few are chose.