Matthew 22:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁹ Now go to the main crossroads of the highways and invite everyone you find there to the wedding reception.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ So go to the thoroughfares where they leave the city [where the main roads and those from the country end] and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.

Common English Bible

⁹ Therefore, go to the roads on the edge of town and invite everyone you find to the wedding party.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Therefore, go out to the ways, and call whomever you will find to the wedding.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.

Matthew 22:9 Cross References

Matthew 20:7

They replied, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You men also may go to work in my vineyard.’

Matthew 22:10

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.

Matthew 22:8

Then he told his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited to it [proved they] were not worthy [to attend].

Luke 24:47

And [the need for] a change of heart and life in order to receive the forgiveness of sins [from God] will be preached in Jesus’ name [i.e., by His authority] to people of all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Acts 13:47

For the Lord commanded us to do this by saying, 'I have appointed you to be a light to the [unconverted] Gentiles, so that you should be [the occasion] for [bringing] salvation to the farthest corner of the earth.'"

Ephesians 3:8

This favor of preaching the unfathomable riches of Christ to the Gentiles was given to me [even though] I am the least significant of all saints [i.e., God’s holy people].

Revelation 22:17

And the Holy Spirit and the bride [i.e., the church. See 21:9] say, “Come!” And the person who hears [this] should say “Come.” And the person who is [spiritually] thirsty should come; [and] whoever wants to should come and drink the water of life without having to pay for it.