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Matthew 22:10

So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

KJV

καὶ ἐξελθόντες οἱ δοῦλοι ἐκεῖνοι εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς συνήγαγον πάντας ὅσους εὗρον, πονηρούς τε καὶ ἀγαθούς, καὶ ἐπλήσθη ὁ νυμφὼν ἀνακειμένων.

Greek NT

Et egressi servi ejus in vias, congregaverunt omnes quos invenerunt, malos et bonos : et impletæ sunt nuptiæ discumbentium.

Vulgate

And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests.

ASV

And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δοῦλος
doulos
noun · 124×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εὑρίσκω
eurisko
verb · 175×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
νυμφών
numphon
noun · 4×
πλήθω
pletho
verb · 24×
πονηρός
poneros
adjective · 77×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
συνάγω
sunago
verb · 59×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
ἀγαθός
agathos
adjective · 102×
ἀνακεῖμαι
anakeimai
verb · 14×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐξέρχομαι
exerchomai
verb · 221×
o
article · 19778×
ὁδός
odos
noun · 101×
ὅσος
osos
correlative · 108×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: οὓς | WH/NIV: οὓς | Treg/RP: ὅσους
  • οὓςSBLGNT
  • οὓςWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὅσουςTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: γάμος | Treg/NIV/RP: γάμος | WH: νυμφὼν
  • γάμοςSBLGNT
  • γάμοςTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • νυμφὼνWestcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§546Jesus' invitation to enter his kingdom comes in the form of parables, a characteristic feature of his teaching.261 Through his parables he invites people to the feast of the kingdom, but he also asks for a radical choice: to gain the kingdom, one must give everything.262 Words are not enough, deeds are required.263 The parables are like mirrors for man: will he be hard soil or …
§796The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a personal relationship. This aspect is often expressed by the image of bridegroom and bride. the theme of Christ as Bridegroom of the Church was prepared for by the prophets and announced by John the Baptist.234 The Lord referred to himself as the "bridegroom."235 T…
Men shall be actually raised: the world shall not be annihilated; but there shall be various mansions for the saints, according to the rank allotted to each individual. All things shall be subject to God the Father, and so shall He be all in all. 1. For since there are real men, so must there also be a real establishment (plantationem), that they vanish not away among non-exist…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • 1John 2:19 — They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
  • 2Cor 12:21 — And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which
  • Acts 18:6 — And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
  • Luke 14:13 — But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
  • Matt 13:47 — Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
  • Matt 22:11 — And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
  • Matt 25:1 — Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
  • Matt 25:10 — And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
  • Rev 2:20 — Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat th
  • Rev 7:9 — After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robe
  • Rev 19:6 — And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.