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And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying,
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The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made a wedding feast for his son,
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and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the wedding feast, and they would not come.
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Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast.
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But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce.
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And the rest, laying hold of his bondmen, ill-treated and slew [them].
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And [when] the king [heard of it he] was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
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Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy;