22:1-10
In Luke 14:15 this parable is told in response to the remark of a guest at a dinner. Jesus may well have told the same parable on several occasions. In this parable a king is going to hold a wedding banquet and then sends his servants out to invite many guests. Then the banquet was ready and the servants were told to get the invited guests to come along. However, the invitees either made excuses, or even seized the servants and mistreated them or killed them! So the king sent out the army and destroyed the murderers and their city. Then he sent out his servants to go the street corners and invite anyone at all that they found. So they found all sorts of people, good and bad, and the wedding hall was full.
There are several lessons to be learnt. One is the use of a wedding banquet, and in Revelation we have the use of the wedding analogy, and in Ephesians marriage is used as to represent the relationship between Christ and the church. Then there is the destruction of the city. This happened in all too real a way in AD 66-70. The real tragedy is that the religious leaders were invited, they could have been at the banquet instead of being destroyed. Finally, all are invited, the gospel goes out into all the world, and even “bad” people are invited.
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