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Matthew
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bulletReading the Text:
bullet NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
bullet The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
bulletThe Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
bulletThe World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
bulletHistorical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
bulletThe Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
bulletAt (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts:
bulletFrom the Babylonian Talmud: Beggar At A Banquet (Berakoth 31b), Banquet Attire (Shabbath 513a), and Clean Clothes (Shabbath 152b).
bulletPrimary comparative texts about Food & Fellowship (including "preparing for the real banquet").
bulletChapter IV of the Epistle of Barnabas. (ca. 130)
bulletXXX.10, 12, 16-18, 20-21, 24, 26-30; Tatian's Diatessaron (c. 150-160).
bulletIV.XXXVI.5, IV.XXXVI.6, IV.XXXIX.3, V.XXXVI.2, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
bullet1.10, Paedagogus, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
bulletChapter XXVII, Chapter XXXV, On the Resurrection of the FleshTertullian (c. 211)
bulletConcerning Flight in Persecution (paragraph 14) Tertullian (c. 212)
bulletChapter IX, On Modesty, Tertullian (c. 217)
bulletII.V.2, First Principles (De Principiis), Origen. (c.225)
bulletI.34, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Origen. (c.228)
bulletXII.12, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247)
bulletV.1, Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 320).
bulletLatin text of Augustine's Sermon 90 (Mt 22:1-14).
bullet Homily LXIX - Matthew 22:1-14, Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew, St. Chrysostom (c. 380)
bulletFrom the Catena Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas.
bullet "Parable of the Marriage Feast," Martin Luther, c. 1523.
bulletFrom the Geneva Notes.
bullet"Not all of the whole company of those that are called by the voice of the gospel are the true Church before God: for the most part of them would rather follow the conveniences of this life: and some persecute very cruelly those that call them: but they are the true Church who obey when they are called, such as for the most part are those whom the world despises."
bulletFrom Matthew Henry's Commentary.
bullet"Our merciful God has not only provided food, but a royal feast, for the perishing souls of his rebellious creatures..."     "...Our merciful God has not only provided food, but a royal feast, for the perishing souls of his rebellious creatures."
bulletFrom Wesley's Notes.
bullet"A king, who made a marriage feast for his son - So did God, when he brought his first-begotten into the world."
bulletOn the Wedding Garment (Matt 22:12). Sermon by John Wesley.
bullet"It is true, indeed, that none ought to approach the Lord's table without habitual, at least, if not actual, preparation; that is, a firm purpose to keep all the commandments of God, and a sincere desire to receive all his promises. But that obligation cannot be inferred from this text, though it may from many other passages of Scripture."
bullet"Making Light of Christ; Matthew 22:5," Charles H. Spurgeon, 1856.
bullet"...it is making light of the gospel and of the whole of God's glorious things, when men go to hear and yet do not attend. How many frequent churches and chapels to indulge in a comfortable nap!"
bulletFrom the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
bullet"...which had not on a wedding garment--The language here is drawn from the following remarkable passage in Zep 1:7, 8."
bullet"The Wedding Garment; Matthew 22:11-14," Charles H. Spurgeon, 1871.
bullet"Those who are permitted to see large additions to the church will find this parable of the wedding garment to be singularly appropriate and timely."
bulletFrom The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
bullet"It was the custom among the ancients for the guests to be twice invited; or rather first invited, that they might prepare themselves, and then summoned a short time before the banquet, that they might be there at the proper time."
bulletContemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
bullet Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
bullet "Excuses to Avoid a Wedding," Gospel Analysis, Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
bullet"People always have excuses why they don’t have time for God and the ways of God."
bullet "A Parable for Today, If Not Tomorrow - The Parable of the King's Banquet," Daniel Berrigan, National Catholic Reporter, 2001.
bullet"The parables of Christ, even the innocent, pastoral, tender, innocuous-seeming ones, conceal just below the surface a whiplash, a shock, a charge of dynamite. The stories set conventional expectations, whether concerning God, religion, politics, vocation, status and class, utterly off kilter."
bullet "First Thoughts on Year A Gospel Passages in the Lectionary: Pentecost 21" William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
bullet"The challenge of the story lies both in the warning about refusals and in the richness of the image of salvation as a feast...Beyond the strategy to save the party at the story level is the much richer notion of God's generosity, not as an afterthought, but as God's enthusiastic being and delight in all people and pain at their refusal to share the life freely offered."
bullet Progress and Poverty, William Loader.
bullet"A reflection on poverty and the 'march of progress', connected to the vision and reality of the feast."
bullet Dylan's Lectionary Blog, Proper 23. Biblical Scholar Sarah Dylan Breuer looks at readings for the coming Sunday in the lectionary of the Episcopal Church.
bullet Matthew in the Margins, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
bullet "Matthew 22:1-14, Pentecost 21," Perspectives on the Parables -- Glimpses on the Kingdom of God, Robert H. Albers, Word & World: Theology for Christian Ministry, Luther Northwestern Theological School, 1984.
bullet "Exegetical Considerations," 21st Sunday after Pentecost, Richard Carlson, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Using Greek for Sunday Text Preparations.
bullet"In your context of mission, where is good news in this text?"
bulletExegetical Notes by Brian P. Stoffregen at CrossMarks.
bullet"This text confronts us with the paradox of God's free invitation to the banquet with no strings attached and God's requirement of "putting on" something appropriate to that calling. As with all paradoxes, both are true, and concentrating only on one extreme is unhealthy. The trick is learning to manage the two extremes -- knowing when to appropriate apply each one."
bullet "Dress Code," Gracia Grindal, The Christian Century, 2002.
bullet"We are naked, both literally and metaphorically, before the living God. We need to be dressed, not with the sartorial choices of our own will, but with the grace of God."
bullet "For Many Are Called, but Few Are Chosen," Jerry Goebel, One Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study and activities.
bullet"One might think that we are to be like the grateful guests sitting at the feast of splendor. Yet, the overlooked role is that of the servants who go out to the streets to extend the King’s invitation. That is the role that Christ calls his disciples to fulfill."
bullet Wellspring of the Gospel, Ordinary 28A, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
bullet "Equal Dignity for All," Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's Story, Family Activity, Support Materials.
bullet"Have you ever helped someone get ahead in life? How has the experience improve that person's dignity?"
bullet "Tales of Terror, Times of Wonder," Barbara Brown Taylor, The Other Side Online, March/April 2000. (Archived)
bullet"That is the fundamental hope to which all tales of terror drive us: That however wrong they may seem, however misbegotten and needlessly cruel, God may be present in them, working redemption in ways we are not equipped to discern."
bullet "Party Time," Susan Pendleton Jones. Commentary from The Christian Century, September, 1999. At Religion Online.
bullet"We are called to repent in preparation or the party, not because we have to but because we know we are entering into the presence of a gracious, forgiving God."
bullet "The 'Outer Darkness': Heaven's Suburb or Hell?" by Hampton Keathley IV at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
bullet"...this parable is correctly identified as a salvation parable—about getting into the kingdom—not about the works one does as a Christian. This parable cannot be used to teach perseverance of the saints or loss of salvation."
bulletArticles & Background:
bullet "Parable of the Wedding Feast," wikipedia.
bullet "The Contexts of Jesus' Parables," David B. Gowler, (other resources at) "Parables," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2006.
bullet"Jesus’ parables were created and preserved in conversation with both Jewish and Greco-Roman cultural environments. As we become aware of these diverse webs of meaning, we can respond more fully to the message of our Lord who spoke these parables with one ear already listening for our responses."
bullet "Matthew's Nonviolent Jesus and Violent Parables," Barbara E. Reid, O.P., (other resources at) "Parables," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2006.
bullet"Jesus' Sermon on the Mount instructs us to not return violence for violence; instead we should be like God, who offers boundless, gratuitous love to all. But in the same Gospel Jesus tells eight parables in which God deals violently with evildoers. Which of the divine ways are we to imitate?"
bullet "The Kingdom of Heaven Suffers Violence: Discerning the Suffering Servant in the Parable of the Wedding Banquet," W. Martin Aiken, 2003. At Paul Nuechterlein's Girardian Reflections on the Lectionary.
bullet"The servant figure in the parable with whom Jesus identifies is the man without the wedding garment who suffers expulsion, and worse, at the hand of the king."
bullet "Invitation to a Simple Feast," Diane M. Komp. Theology Today, 1993.
bullet"The banquet I long for most has nothing to do with cholesterolburdened beef and fries. For the past twenty-flve years, I have had the privilege of working with children with cancer and of sharing in their lives. When you witness many soul-fortifying lives, your standards for a feast become more regal. May I invite you to a simple gospel feast?"
bullet "Jesus, Apocalyptic, and World Transformation," David B. Batstone. Theology Today, 1993.
bullet"It is often overlooked how ideologically explosive the notion of the kingdom of God was within Jesus' own social milieu. In first-century Palestine, it did not have the same metaphorical and strictly religious connotation that makes the term so safe within our own theological world. In fact, it evoked the memory and visionary impulse of Yahweh who acts to deliver Yahweh's 'chosen ones' from occupation and oppression at the hands of alien nations. Intrinsic to that symbolic universe is the conviction that the chosen suffer and the unjust prosper in the present day only because history stands at the brink of a great reversal."
bulletArticles in ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are subscribed and logged in to ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
bulletAlbers, Robert H., "Perspectives on the Parables - Glimpses of the Kingdom of God," Word & World, 1984. (Section on this text begins on page 450.)
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bulletBridges, Linda McKinnish, "Preaching the Parables in Matthew's Gospel in Ordinary Time: The Extraordinary Tales of God's World," Review & Expositor, 2007. (Section on this text begins on p.352, but is best read in context of entire article.)
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bulletCarter, Warren, "Resisting and Imitating the Empire: Imperial Paradigms in Two Matthean Parables," Interpretation, 2002. (See also, "Parables," issue focus of Interpretation 56.3 (2002).)
bulletOlson, Daniel C., "Mathew 22:1-14 as Midrash," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2005.
bulletReid, Barbara E., O.P., "Violent Endings in Matthew's Parables and Christian Nonviolence," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004.
bulletSmillie, Gene R., "Jesus' Response to the Question of His Authority in Matthew 21," Bibliotheca Sacra, 2005.
bulletReviews:
bullet Welsey G. Olmstead, Matthew's Trilogy of Parables: The Nation, the Nations and the Reader in Matthew 21:28-22:14. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Review by Garwood Anderson in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
bulletWilson, Alistair I., When Will These Things Happen?: A Study of Jesus as Judge in Matthew 21-25. PaterNoster Press, 2005. Review by Samuel Subramanian, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.
bulletSermons:
bullet "Ready for the Feast?" 21 Pentecost - 9 October 2005, Samuel Zumwalt, Göttinger Predigten im Internet: Every Sunday Sermons based on the RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors.
bullet "What Will You Wear?" (scroll down) William L. Mangrum, The Clergy Journal, 2005.
bullet "Excuses to Avoid a Wedding," Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington.
bullet "Wanted: Entrepreneurs," the Rev. Dr. Samuel Massey, Day 1, 2002.
bullet "Anatomy of a Spiritual Disaster - Insulting God," John Jewell, 1999.
bullet "God's Reign: Everyone is Invited, But There are Standards," Fr. Patrick Brennan, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 1997.
bullet "Sorry, I'm Busy," the Rev. Dr. Elton Richards, Day 1, 1996.
bullet Father Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily:
bullet Ordinary 28, 2005
bullet Ordinary 28, 1999
bulletWith Children:
bullet "You Are Invited," Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons4kids.com.
bullet "Wedding Banquet," Fr. Max Bowers, Kids Church.
bullet "A King Gives a Wedding Banquet," Sunday School Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc.
bulletDrama:
bullet "The King's Invitation," Warren Judkins, dramatix.
bullet "Let's Have a Party," Edgar Mayer, dramatix.
bullet "The Banquet Guests," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications.
bulletGraphics & Bulletin Materials:
bullet Clip Art, Matthew 22:9, Matthew 22:12, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
bulletClip Art Images: Matthew 22:1-14, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
bullet Matthew 22:1-14, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
bullet Matthew 22:1-14, at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
bulletHymns and Music:
bullet Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
bullet Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Matthew 22:4, 9. The Cyber Hymnal.
bulletFine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
bulletMovies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
bulletStudy Links and Resources for the Book of Matthew