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And Jesus answered and spoke unto them again in parables and said,
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"The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain king, who made a marriage for his son.
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And he sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come.
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Again he sent forth other servants, saying, `Tell them that are bidden, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come unto the marriage."'
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But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise,
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and the remnant took his servants and treated them spitefully and slew them.
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But when the king heard thereof he was wroth, and he sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.
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Then said he to his servants, `The wedding is ready, but they that were bidden were not worthy.
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Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.'