When it was time for the feast, he sent his servant to tell his guests, ‘Come, everything is ready!’
Jesus said to him, “There was once a man who was giving a great feast to which he invited many people.
But they all began, one after another, to make excuses. The first one told the servant, ‘I have bought a field and must go and look at it; please accept my apologies.’
On the last and most important day of the festival Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice, “Whoever is thirsty should come to me, and
“My fellow Israelites, descendants of Abraham, and all Gentiles here who worship God: it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent!
All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also.