New Living Translation

Matthew 22:9-15 New Living Translation (NLT)

9. Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’

10. So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.

11. “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding.

12. ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply.

13. Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

14. “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

15. Then the Pharisees met together to plot how to trap Jesus into saying something for which he could be arrested.