So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Parallel translations
- WEB Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
- BSB So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
- NKJV So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
- NASB Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests.
- NLT So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.
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Quick answer
The servants gather all they find, both bad and good, and the hall is filled. The Kingdom's invitation reaches every kind of person.
Overview
The wide gathering of 'both bad and good' shows that the gospel call goes out to all without distinction of merit. The filled wedding hall portrays God's determination to have His feast fully attended. Yet the mixed company also prepares for the next scene, where mere presence is not the same as true belonging.
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- 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
- 1 Cor 6:9–11Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- Rev 2:20–23Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
- Rev 19:6–9And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
- Matt 13:47–48Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
- 2 Cor 12:21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
- Rev 7:9After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
- Matt 22:11–12And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
- Matt 25:1–2Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
- Matt 25:10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
- Rev 2:14–15But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
- Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
- Matt 13:38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
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