When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’
He replied to him, “A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many.
But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.’
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and exclaimed, “Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink.
“My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those others among you who are God-fearing, to us this word of salvation has been sent.
And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation,