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Matthew 22

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

The Marriage of the King's Son
¹ And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:²"The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,³and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.⁴Again, he sent out other servants, saying, "Tell those who are invited, "See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding."'⁵But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.⁶And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.⁷But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.⁸Then he said to his servants, "The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.⁹Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.'¹⁰So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
¹¹"But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.¹²So he said to him, "Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.¹³Then the king said to the servants, "Bind him hand and foot, take him away, cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
¹⁴"For many are called, but few are chosen."

2 Chronicles 36

The Fall of Jerusalem
¹⁵ And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.¹⁶But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
¹⁷Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.¹⁸And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon.¹⁹Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.²⁰And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,²¹to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

The Proclamation of Cyrus
²² Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

²³Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up!

The roots of the Parables!