Matthew 22:10 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁰ So, his servants went out to the highways and gathered in all those who could be found, both bad and good, so that the wedding [reception] was full of guests.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ “Then those servants went to the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding party was full of guests.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And his servants, departing into the ways, gathered all those whom they found, bad and good, and the wedding was filled with guests.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests.

Matthew 22:10 Cross References

Matthew 13:38

and the field [represents] the world. The good seed [represents] the children who belong to the kingdom, and the weeds [represent] the children who belong to the evil one [i.e., the devil].

Matthew 22:9

Now go to the main crossroads of the highways and invite everyone you find there to the wedding reception.’

Matthew 25:10

And while they were away [trying] to buy olive oil, the [bride and] groom arrived, and those who were ready [to welcome them] entered the [house where the] wedding reception [was being held] and the door was shut.

Matthew 9:15

Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen act sadly while the groom is still with them? But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that, when I come, my God will humiliate me in front of you, and I will be grieved over many [of those] who have sinned in the past without repenting of the [moral] impurity, sexual immorality and unrestrained indecency they have practiced.

1 John 2:19

These antichrists left our group [i.e., withdrew their fellowship from us], but they were not [really a part] of us, for if they had been, they would have continued [to participate] with us. But, by their leaving us, it proved that none of them were [really] a part of our group [after all].

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song [which went like this]: “You deserve to take the book and break the seals on it, for you were killed and, with your blood, you purchased people for God from every tribe and language and race and nation,

Revelation 7:9

After seeing [all] these things, I looked and there [I saw] a huge crowd, which no one could count, from every nation, and tribe, and race, and language group, standing in front of the throne [of God] and in front of the Lamb. They were dressed in white robes and had palm tree branches in their hands.