and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they did not want to come.

Again, he sent out other servants, saying, 'Say to those who are invited, "See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things [are] ready. Come to the wedding."'

Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.'

Therefore the wisdom of God also said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they will kill and persecute,'

and he sent his servant at dinnertime to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'

So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.'

Then the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the roads and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, so that my house may be filled.

And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things!"

Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

She sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the streets,

Wisdom sings aloud in passages, and in the broad places speaks boldly.

So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and have become subject to reproofs.

You shall proclaim wisdom, that understanding may be obedient to you.

For she sits by the gates of princes, and sings in the entrances, [saying],

Now on the last day, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always come together, and in secret I spoke nothing.