Matthew 22:9

9 Therefore, go out to the [places where] the roads exit the city and invite to the wedding celebration as many [people] as you find.'

Matthew 22:9 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 22:9

Go ye therefore into the highways
Either of the city, which were open and public, and where much people were passing to and fro; or of the fields, the high roads, where many passengers were travelling; and may design the Gentile world, and Gentile sinners, who, in respect of the Jews, were far off; were walking in their own ways, and in the high road to destruction; and may denote their being the vilest of sinners, and as having nothing to recommend them to the divine favour, and to such privileges as this entertainment expresses: and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage;
to the marriage feast, not the marriage supper, but the dinner, ( Matthew 22:4 ) , their orders were to go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature, Jew or Gentile, high or low, rich or poor, outwardly righteous, or openly profane, greater or lesser sinners, and exhort them to attend the Gospel ministry, and ordinances.

Matthew 22:9 In-Context

7 And the king was angry and sent his troops [and] destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8 Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding celebration is ready, but those who had been invited were not worthy.
9 Therefore, go out to the [places where] the roads exit the city and invite to the wedding celebration as many [people] as you find.'
10 And those slaves went out into the roads [and] gathered everyone whom they found, both evil and good, and the wedding celebration was filled {with dinner guests}.
11 But [when] the king came in to see the {dinner guests}, he saw a man there not dressed [in] wedding clothes.
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