Matthew 22:10

So 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.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The narrator reports the servants' execution of the king's command to invite guests from the public thoroughfares into the banquet hall. This moment occurs immediately after the invitation is issued and directly precedes the king's inspection of the assembled crowd.

The words — The particulate ἐξελθόντες (exelthontes) means "having gone out," indicating the servants' immediate departure from the palace. Their movement is directed toward τὰς ὁδοὺς (tas hodous), the "highways" or crossroads where the summons is delivered.

The thread — This indiscriminate gathering mirrors the net in Matthew 13:47 that catches all kinds of fish, and it establishes the mixed composition of the hall that 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 John 2:19 later address regarding the exclusion of the wicked and the reality of true belonging.

Why it lands — The text states that the initial invitation extends to all without moral filtering, making the subsequent requirement of proper wedding garments the decisive standard for remaining in the king's presence.

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The Greek words

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
Matthew 13:47 Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.
2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
Revelation 2:20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 7:9 After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
Revelation 19:6 And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
Matthew 22:11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
Matthew 25:1 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Matthew 25:10 But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.