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Proper 23
Pentecost 21
Ordinary Time 28
11.
The King's Wedding Feast
Matthew 22:1-14
Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: 2"The
kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding
banquet for his son.
3He sent his slaves to call those who had
been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come.
4Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been
invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat
calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to
the wedding banquet.' 5But they made light of it and went away,
one to his farm, another to his business, 6while the rest seized
his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them.
7The king was
enraged.
He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and
burned their city.
8Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is
ready, but those invited were not worthy.
9Go therefore into the
main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding
banquet.' 10Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered
all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was
filled with guests.
11"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a
man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, 12and he said to
him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?'
And he was speechless.
13Then the king said to the attendants,
'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' 14For many
are called, but few are chosen."
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Context
Context of the Lectionary
The First Lesson.
(Exodus 32:1-14) The passage recounts
the experience of the people of Israel in the wilderness when
Moses had gone up the mountain of Sinai.
They assumed that he
was not returning.
They appealed to Aaron for a god to lead
them.
He got from the people all the gold of their jewelry and
from that produced the golden calf.
The people proceeded with an
orgy of worship.
Moses came down and discovered what was
happening.
In his anger he shattered the tablets which contained
the ten commandments.
Moses then had to forestall the wrath of
God who was inclined to blot out the people for their idolatry.
Only Moses' pleading and willingness also to be blotted out
turned aside the judgment upon the people.
The Second Lesson.
(Philippians 4:1-9) Paul in his
concluding message to the Philippians gives some specific
instructions for members of the church.
He also admonishes the
church to continued faithfulness.
He urges them to think on the
things that will edify and strengthen them in such faithfulness.
He assures them that it will bring genuine personal peace.
Gospel.
(Matthew 22:1-14) The kingdom of heaven is
compared to a wedding feast.
Many are invited but refuse the
invitation.
Finally all kinds of guests are gathered to
celebrate the great event.
Psalm.
(Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23) The psalm begins with the
call to praise the Lord, affirming his goodness and appealing to
the Lord for deliverance and prosperity.
It then goes on to
acknowledge the sins of ancestors and recounts the episode of the
golden calf as given in the first lesson.
Context of the Scriptures
The parable is part of the opposition which Jesus
experienced
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after the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem and leading up to his
crucifixion.
It is part of several parables which explain the
opposition and the meaning of it.
The opposition was primarily
centered in the officials of both the religious and the political
community of the time.
Matthew in writing the parable probably took some liberties
by embellishing it in light of some developments which make the
consequences of the opposition even more graphic, such as the
fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 A.D. (See verse 7 about
the burning of the city.)
The parable may be compared to a somewhat similar passage in
Luke 14:16-24.
Matthew
22:2 The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a
wedding banquet for his son.
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