² She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

⁶ And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.

³ And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.

⁴ Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.

⁵ But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:

⁶ And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.

⁷ But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

⁸ Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough.

⁹ Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.

¹⁰ And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.

¹¹ But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;

¹² And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

¹⁴ For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.

¹⁶ And the servant did as Joseph said, and took the men into Joseph's house.

⁵ Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

³⁰ Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

² I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.

¹⁶ And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.

¹⁷ And when the time had come, he sent his servants to say to them, Come, for all things are now ready.

⁷ Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

⁸ Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.