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.
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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
- 1 Cor 6:9–11Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
- Rev 2:20–23But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
- Rev 19:6–9I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
- Matt 13:47–48“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
- 2 Cor 12:21that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
- Rev 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
- Matt 22:11–12But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,
- Matt 25:1–2“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
- Matt 25:10While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
- Rev 2:14–15But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- Matt 13:38the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
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