Matthew 22:1-10

1 And Iesus answered and spake vnto them agayne in similitudes sayinge.

2 The kingdome of heve is lyke vnto a certayne kynge which maryed his sonne

3 and sent forth his servantes to call them that were byd to the weddinge and they wolde not come.

4 Ageyne he sent forth other servauntes sayinge: Tell them which are bydden: beholde I have prepared my dynner myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled and all thinges are redy come vnto the mariage.

5 But they made light of it and went their wayes: one to his ferme place another about his marchaundise

6 the remnaunt toke his seruantes and intreated them vngodly and slewe them.

7 When the kinge hearde that he was wroth and send forth his warryers and distroyed those murtherers and brent vp their cyte.

8 Then sayde he to his servauutes: the weddinge was prepared. But they which were bydden were not worthy.

9 Go ye therfore out into ye hyewayes and as many as ye finde byd them to the mariage.

10 The seruauntes wet out into the hiewayes and gaddered to gedder as many as they coulde fynde both good and bad and ye weddinge was furnysshed with gestes.