Matthew 22:4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:17

they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them; but they stiffened their necks and determined to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.

Psalm 86:5

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Song of Solomon 5:1

I come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love.

Matthew 21:36

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way.

Matthew 22:5

But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business,

Matthew 22:8

Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy.

Luke 14:17

At the time for the dinner he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is ready now.’

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 13:46

Then both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you reject it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the Gentiles.

Romans 8:32

He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else?