Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,
Parallel translations
- WEB Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
- KJV And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
- BSB Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables:
- NKJV And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
- NLT Jesus also told them other parables. He said,
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Quick answer
Jesus continues teaching in parables, beginning the parable of the wedding feast. He again addresses the leaders' rejection of God's invitation.
Overview
This third parable in the series carries forward Jesus' indictment of the religious leadership. Set as another response to His opponents, it pictures God's gracious invitation into His Kingdom and the consequences of refusing it. The wedding-feast imagery introduces a note of joyful celebration alongside solemn warning.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Matt 20:1–16“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
- Matt 12:43–45When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
- Matt 21:28–46But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
- Luke 14:16But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
- Matt 13:3–11He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
- Matt 9:15–17Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
- Luke 8:10He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
- Mark 4:33–34With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
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Matthew presents Jesus as the promised King — son of David, son of Abraham — the new Moses and true Israel in whom every prophecy reaches 'that it might be fulfilled.'
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