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A marriage feast (gamous). The plural, as here (Mat 22:2, Mat 22:3, Mat 22:4, Mat 22:9), is very common in the papyri for the wedding festivities (the several acts of feasting) which lasted for days, seven in Jdg 14:17. The very phrase here, gamous poiein, occurs in the Doric of Thera about b.c. 200. The singular gamos is common in the papyri for the wedding contract, but Field (Notes, p. 16) sees no difference between the singular here in Mat 22:8 and the plural (see also Gen 29:22; Est 9:22; 1 Maccabees 10:58).