Matteo 22:1

1 E GESÙ, messosi a parlare, da capo ragionò loro in parabole, dicendo:

Matteo 22:1 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 22:1

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again
Not to the multitude only, but to the chief priests, elders, Scribes, and Pharisees: for though Mark seems to intimate, that upon the delivery of the last parable of the vineyard, they left him, and went their way; yet since he does not relate the following parable, they might not leave him until they had heard that, which is spoken with much the same design as the former, and might increase their resentment the more: or if the chief priests and elders did go away, the Pharisees remained behind, as is clear from ( Matthew 22:15 ) to whom he spake

by parables,
similitudes, and comparisons, taken from earthly things, and against whom he directed the following one;

and said,
as hereafter related.

Matteo 22:1 In-Context

1 E GESÙ, messosi a parlare, da capo ragionò loro in parabole, dicendo:

2 Il regno de’ cieli è simile ad un re, il qual fece le nozze al suo figliuolo.

3 E mandò i suoi servitori a chiamar gl’invitati alle nozze, ma essi non vollero venire.

4 Di nuovo mandò altri servitori, dicendo: Dite agl’invitati: Ecco, io ho apparecchiato il mio desinare, i miei giovenchi, e i miei animali ingrassati sono ammazzati, ed ogni cosa è apparecchiata; venite alle nozze.

5 Ma essi non curandosene, se ne andarono, chi alla sua possessione, chi alla sua mercatanzia.