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“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business.
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The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
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The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
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“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
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So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’
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So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
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“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
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He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.
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“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’