³ She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

¹⁴ Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

¹ Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

² At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

³ Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹⁵ And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things.

²⁰ Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.

³⁷ On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

²¹ And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body.

²² And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room.

²³ And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.

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

⁴⁹ For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

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

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.

²⁰ Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

²¹ Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

²³ Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

¹¹ The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public.