Matthew 22:4
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Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
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Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.
I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’