Matthew 22:1-9

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.