Matthew Chapter 22 verse 9 Holy Bible
Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.
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Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.
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go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.
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Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
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Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
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be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - The highways; τὰς διεξόδους τῶν ὁδῶν: exitus viarum; the partings, or outlets of the ways. The places where roads meet, beyond the city bounds in the country, which would naturally be a centre of concourse. The city where the marriage feast was now held is not named, because it is no longer Jerusalem, but somewhere, anywhere, in the Gentile world; for the call of the Gentiles is here set forth. As many as ye shall find. The invitation is no longer confined to the Jews; the whole human race is called to the marriage of the Lamb, to participate in the fruits of the Incarnation. This general evangelization was begun in apostolic times (see Acts 8:5, 38; Acts 10:28, 48; Acts 13:46), and has been carried on ever since. The apostles' special ministrations to the Jews seemed to have ended at the martyrdom of St. James the Less, A.D. 62 (Josephus, 'Ant.,' 20:09, l).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Into the highways.--Literally, the openings of the ways, the places where two or more roads met, and where, therefore, there was a greater probability of meeting way-farers. In the interpretation of the parable, we may see in this feature of it a prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles, and find an apt illustration of it in St. Paul's words when he turned from the Jews of the Pisidian Antioch who counted, themselves "unworthy of eternal life" (Acts 13:46) to the Gentiles who were willing to receive it.
