Matthew 22:9 “Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as yo…”

Matthew 22:9

Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

World English Bible

Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’

American Standard Version

Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.

Geneva Bible 1599

Go ye therefore out into the high wayes, and as many as ye finde, bid them to the mariage.

Darby Translation

go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.

Young's Literal Translation

be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.

Bible in Basic English

Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.

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Cross references

“Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.”

Luke 14:21–24 Proverbs 1:20–23 Proverbs 8:1–5 Proverbs 9:4–6 Isaiah 55:1–3 Luke 24:47

Luke 14:21–24 · BSB

The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, th…

Proverbs 1:20–23 · BSB

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

Proverbs 8:1–5 · BSB

Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?

Proverbs 9:4–6 · BSB

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

Isaiah 55:1–3 · BSB

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Luke 24:47 · BSB

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Also

Ezekiel 21:21

Ezekiel 21:21 · BSB

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.

10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

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