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Matthew
22:1-14
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
 | The
Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto. |
| At (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:
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| Chapter IV of
the Epistle of Barnabas.
(ca. 130) |
| XXX.10, 12,
16-18, 20-21, 24, 26-30; Tatian's Diatessaron
(c. 150-160). |
| IV.XXXVI.5, IV.XXXVI.6, IV.XXXIX.3, V.XXXVI.2, Adversus
Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons.
(c. 180) |
| 1.10, Paedagogus,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
| Chapter
XXVII, Chapter
XXXV, On the Resurrection of the Flesh, Tertullian
(c. 211) |
| Concerning
Flight in Persecution (paragraph 14) Tertullian (c.
212) |
| Chapter IX, On
Modesty, Tertullian
(c. 217) |
| II.V.2, First
Principles (De Principiis), Origen.
(c.225) |
| I.34, Commentary
on the Gospel of John, Origen.
(c.228) |
| XII.12, Commentary
on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247) |
| V.1, Ecclesiastical
History, Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 320). |
| Latin text of Augustine's Sermon 90 (Mt 22:1-14). |
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Homily LXIX
- Matthew 22:1-14, Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew, St. Chrysostom (c.
380) |
| From the
Catena
Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas. |
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"Parable of the Marriage Feast," Martin Luther, c. 1523. |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "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." |
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| From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary.
| "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." |
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| From Wesley's
Notes.
| "A king, who made a marriage feast for his son - So did God, when
he brought his first-begotten into the world." |
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| On the Wedding Garment
(Matt 22:12). Sermon by John Wesley.
| "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." |
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| "Making
Light of Christ; Matthew 22:5," Charles H. Spurgeon, 1856.
| "...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!" |
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| From the Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "...which had not on a wedding garment--The language here is drawn
from the following remarkable passage in Zep 1:7, 8." |
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| "The
Wedding Garment; Matthew 22:11-14," Charles H. Spurgeon, 1871.
| "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." |
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| From The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
| "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." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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"Excuses to Avoid a Wedding," Gospel Analysis, Sermons from
Seattle,
Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
| "People always have excuses why they
don’t have time for God and the ways of God." |
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"A Parable for Today, If Not Tomorrow - The Parable of the King's Banquet,"
Daniel Berrigan, National Catholic Reporter, 2001.
| "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." |
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"First
Thoughts on Year A Gospel Passages in the Lectionary:
Pentecost 21"
William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
| "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." |
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Progress and
Poverty, William Loader.
| "A reflection on poverty and the 'march
of progress', connected to the vision and reality of the feast." |
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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. |
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Matthew in the Margins, by
Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia. |
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"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. |
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"Exegetical Considerations,"
21st Sunday after Pentecost, Richard Carlson, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Using Greek
for Sunday Text Preparations.
| "In your context of mission,
where is good news in this text?" |
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| Exegetical
Notes by Brian P. Stoffregen at CrossMarks.
| "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." |
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"Dress Code," Gracia Grindal, The Christian Century, 2002.
| "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." |
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"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.
| "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." |
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Wellspring of
the Gospel, Ordinary 28A, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn
Turner, Weekly Wellsprings. |
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"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.
| "Have you ever helped someone get
ahead in life? How has the experience improve that person's dignity?" |
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"Tales
of Terror, Times of Wonder," Barbara
Brown Taylor, The Other Side Online, March/April 2000. (Archived)
| "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." |
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"Party
Time," Susan Pendleton Jones. Commentary from The Christian
Century, September, 1999. At Religion Online.
| "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." |
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"The
'Outer Darkness': Heaven's Suburb or Hell?" by Hampton Keathley IV at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
| "...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." |
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| Articles & Background:
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"Parable
of the Wedding Feast," wikipedia. |
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"The Contexts of Jesus' Parables," David B. Gowler, (other resources
at)
"Parables," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian
Ethics at Baylor University, 2006.
| "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." |
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"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.
| "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?" |
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"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.
| "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." |
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"Invitation
to a Simple Feast," Diane M. Komp. Theology Today, 1993.
| "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?" |
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"Jesus,
Apocalyptic, and World Transformation," David B. Batstone. Theology
Today, 1993.
| "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." |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Albers, 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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| Bridges, 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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| Carter, Warren,
"Resisting and Imitating the Empire: Imperial Paradigms in Two Matthean
Parables," Interpretation, 2002. (See also,
"Parables," issue focus of Interpretation 56.3 (2002).) |
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| Reviews:
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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. |
| Wilson, 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. |
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| Sermons:
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"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. |
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"What Will You Wear?" (scroll down) William L. Mangrum, The
Clergy Journal, 2005. |
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"Excuses to Avoid a Wedding,"
Sermons from Seattle,
Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. |
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"Wanted: Entrepreneurs," the Rev. Dr. Samuel Massey,
Day 1, 2002. |
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"Anatomy of a
Spiritual Disaster - Insulting God," John Jewell, 1999. |
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"God's Reign:
Everyone is Invited, But There are Standards,"
Fr. Patrick Brennan,
30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday
Evening Club, 1997. |
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"Sorry, I'm Busy," the Rev. Dr. Elton
Richards, Day 1, 1996. |
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Father
Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist,"
Commentary and Homily:
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| With Children:
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| Drama:
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| Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
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Clip Art, Matthew 22:9,
Matthew 22:12, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators. |
| Clip Art Images:
Matthew 22:1-14, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú. |
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Matthew 22:1-14, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora,
Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use
these for free.") |
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Matthew 22:1-14, at
Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration.
Liberation emphasis. |
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| Hymns and Music:
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| Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's
Art Index: |
| Movies scenes with the following themes,
listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance: |
| Study Links and Resources for the Book of Matthew |
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