More scholarly work needs to be done on the banquet in order to see what untrod avenues of discovery might be uncovered. Finally, if our analysis of the function of the banquet in Jesus’ preaching and teaching is correct, then the evidence in the gospels help us to paint a more concrete picture of exactly how Jesus, as a first-century Jew, may have understood the coming Kingdom of God. Anyone familiar with the mountain of secondary literature on the Kingdom of God knows that one can often come away