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1–14. THE PARABLE OF THE ROYAL MARRIAGE FEAST
Peculiar to St Matthew
The parable recorded by St Luke (Luk 14:16-24), though similar to this in some respects, differs in its context and special teaching and in many details.
As of the other parables of the Passion, the primary intention of this regards the present and the immediate future. The parable falls into two divisions, (1) Mat 22:1-7; (2) Mat 22:8-14. In the first (1) the servants are John Baptist and the first disciples of Christ; the feast is the Kingdom of God, or the Christian Church; the invited guests, who refuse to come, are the Jews; the vengeance taken was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem, A.D. 70. (2) This division relates to the preaching of the Gospel to the Gentiles. As in the Net (ch. Mat 13:47) or in the Corn-field (ch. Mat 13:24), worthy and unworthy are mingled until the King separates.