Matthew 22:2–14

²The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made a wedding feast for his son, ³and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the wedding feast, and they would not come. ⁴Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast. ⁵But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce. ⁶And the rest, laying hold of his bondmen, ill-treated and slew them. ⁷And when the king heard of it he was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city. ⁸Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy; ⁹go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast. ¹⁰And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests. ¹¹And the king, having gone in to see the guests, beheld there a man not clothed with a wedding garment. ¹²And he says to him, My friend, how camest thou in here not having on a wedding garment? But he was speechless. ¹³Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. ¹⁴For many are called ones, but few chosen ones.