Parables of Jesus

The Wedding Feast
Eschatology

The Parable of the Wedding Feast precedes the Parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14:15–24. In the Gospel of Matthew, the parallel passage to the Gospel of Luke's Parable of the Great Banquet is also set as a wedding feast (Matthew 22:1–14).

In Jesus' time, a wedding was a very sacred and joyous thing, with some lasting up to a week. When Jesus told this parable, many people were able to understand the picture he was trying to create because he used a Jewish wedding, called a Seudat Nissuin, as the setting of the story.

The Luke 14:11 statement "Every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted" can also be found in Luke 18:14 and Matthew 23:12.

This king is our Heavenly Father, who has instituted a marriage between His only-begotton Son and human nature. The Son has espoused the Church in faith and charity, according to the expression of the Prophet, "I will espouse thee to Me in faith, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord." (Hos 2:20.) This same Lord espouses the souls of all the faithful, not those of the noble and the great only, but those of every one who will not reject Him. "Acknowledge, O my soul, your exalted dignity, and behave yourself in a manner worthy of your spouse."

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"The Wedding Feast"

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