CLV(i)
16 Now He said to him, "A certain man made a great dinner, and invites many."
17 And he dispatches his slave at the dinner hour to say to those invited, 'Come, for already, it is ready!'"
18 And they all begin, from one motive, to make excuse. The first said to him, 'I buy a field, and I have felt the necessity of coming out to see it. I am asking you to have me excused.'"
19 And a different one said, 'I buy five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I am asking you to have me excused.'"
20 And a different one said, 'I marry a wife, and therefore I can not come.'"
21 And, coming along, the slave reports these things to his lord. Then being indignant, the householder said to his slave, 'Come out quickly into the squares and streets of the city, and lead in here the poor, and cripples, and blind, and lame.'"
22 And the slave said to him, 'Lord, what you enjoin is done, and still there is place.'"
23 And the lord said to the slave, 'Come out into the roads and stone dikes, and compel them to enter, that my house may be crammed."
24 For I am saying to you that not one of those men who are invited shall be tasting of my dinner.'"