Matthew 22:8
Good News Translation
Then he called his servants and said to them, 'My wedding feast is ready, but the people I invited did not deserve it.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy.

Contemporary English Version
Then he said to the servants, "It is time for the wedding banquet, and the invited guests don't deserve to come.

New American Bible
Then he said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy.

The wedding.

Matthew 22:4 Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.

but.

Matthew 10:11-13,37,38 And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till you go thence. . . .

Luke 20:35 But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world and of the resurrection from the dead shall neither be married nor take wives.

Luke 21:36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.

2 Thessalonians 1:5 For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer.

Revelation 3:4 But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Context
The Parable of the Banquet
7But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city. 8Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy. 9Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.…
Cross References
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Matthew 22:7
But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

Matthew 22:9
Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.

Matthew 22:7
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