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"They only shrugged their shoulders and went off, one to weed his garden, another to work in his shop.
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The rest, with nothing better to do, beat up on the messengers and then killed them.
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The king was outraged and sent his soldiers to destroy those thugs and level their city.
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"Then he told his servants, 'We have a wedding banquet all prepared but no guests. The ones I invited weren't up to it.
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Go out into the busiest intersections in town and invite anyone you find to the banquet.'
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The servants went out on the streets and rounded up everyone they laid eyes on, good and bad, regardless. And so the banquet was on - every place filled.
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"When the king entered and looked over the scene, he spotted a man who wasn't properly dressed.
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He said to him, 'Friend, how dare you come in here looking like that!' The man was speechless.
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Then the king told his servants, 'Get him out of here - fast. Tie him up and ship him to hell. And make sure he doesn't get back in.'
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"That's what I mean when I say, 'Many get invited; only a few make it.'"
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That's when the Pharisees plotted a way to trap him into saying something damaging.