Matthew 22:4

The king patiently sends more servants stressing that everything is ready. God renews His gracious invitation despite refusal.

Cross-references · 16

• Acts 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
• Matt 21:36Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
• John 6:50–57This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
• Luke 14:17And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
• Acts 11:19–20Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
• Ps 86:5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
• Neh 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
• Matt 22:8Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
• Acts 28:17–31And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
• Rom 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
• Acts 1:8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
• 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
• Song 5:1I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
• Luke 24:46–47And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
• Prov 9:1–2Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
• Luke 10:1–16After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

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