WPNT(i)
1 Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables saying:
2 “The kingdom of the heavens is like a certain king who prepared a wedding feast for his son.
3 And he sent out his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, but they did not want to come.
4 Again he sent out other servants saying: ‘Say to those who have been invited: “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast”!’
5 Now the indifferent ones just took off—one to his own field, another to his business.
6 But the rest, seizing his servants mistreated and killed them!
7 So when that king heard about it he was furious; and sending his troops he destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.
8 “Then he says to his servants: ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
9 So go on the roads leading out of town, and as many as you may find invite to the wedding feast.’
10 And going out on the roads those servants gathered together everyone they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had not been clothed with a wedding garment.
12 So he says to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, take him away and throw him out into the darkness farthest away’. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 For many are called, but few chosen.”