face to face with the story’s religious message by concluding it in terms that already move into interpretation. But this device does not impair the literary integrity of the rest of this parable, any more than it does in the case of the parable of the talents (Matt 25:14–30). This parable does not have such a tightly organized plot as the Epiphanian parable, but it has real narrative unity, which centers on the king’s intention of filling his son’s wedding feast with worthy guests.64 Those first