But when Jesus arrived, most of those in Israel wanted nothing to do with Jesus. This first part of the parable is primarily about how Israel as God’s chosen people had been invited to participate in the party that accompanied the arrival of the Messiah. They gathered whomever they found, both good and bad, and brought them to participate in the joy of the king. So the king sent out his servants again to find anybody he could who would attend his wedding feast. In this case, all the guests decided to stay away, and provided their token excuses, which indicated their disapproval (Malina, Synoptic Gospels, 111). Also, many of them sized the servants of the king to beat them and kill them, which was a direct affront to his honor. Such double invitations are not uncommon in honor-shame cultures, for they allow the invited guests time to look over the preparations for the feast and who else is invited so that they can decide whether or not they will attend. When the day of the feast arrived, the king sent out servants to remind those whom he had invited that the day had come. In the first half of this parable (Matthew 22:1-10), a king prepared a wedding feast and invited many people to the feast. This parable in Matthew 22:1-14 is sort of two parables in one. The Parable of the Wedding Feast in Matthew 22:1-14 This post looks at the identical statement in Matthew 22:14, which also follows a parable from Jesus.
In a previous post we looked at the statement of Jesus in Matthew 20 that “many are called, but few are chosen.”
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