THe Marriage Feast

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THe Marriage Feast

[Category]:

Religion

[Paper Title]:

THe Marriage Feast

[Text]:

In Luke chapter fourteen, verses sixteen through twenty-four, Jesus speaks to
the crowds about the parable of “The Marriage Feast.” The parable itself
begins with a certain man who gives a great supper and extends his invitation to
the rich and well to do. However, those invited begin to make excuses. One had
bought a piece of ground and said he must go see it. Another had bought five
yoke of oxen and wanted to test them. A third said he had just gotten married
and could not come. The master, being angry, sends his servants to go out and
invite others. At first the poor, maimed, lame and blind are invited and arrive
in the man’s house. There is still room left in the man's house so the
servants are sent out again to invite those among the bushes of the roads and
sideways to come. Those invited who made excuses would not eat his supper that
he had prepared. I believe this invitation to the banquet is symbolical of the
invitation to eternal life through the gospel message. Jesus uses the figure of
the banquet to illustrate the "feast” in the kingdom of God were people
will come from all over to take their places at the feast of eternal life with
God. Two scholarly interpretations of this parable are described below.

Wilfrid J. Harington argues in his book, A Key to the Parables, that “The
Great Feast” is used as a metaphor in Luke’s gospel. According to Harington
the point of the parable is the refusal of the wealthy guests that were invited
and the replacement of them by the poor and lame. Those that are within the city
are the sinners. These consist of the scribes and Pharisees who are like the
guests who received the invitation and did not accept it. The invitation to
those outside the city refers to the Gentiles. Herington believes that this is
to show how God has called the poor and outcasts and has offered them the
salvation that the scribes and Pharisees had rejected. Harington also agrees
that the two stories of “The Great Feast” are basically the same in Matthew’s
and in Luke’s Gospels. Both Luke and Matthew both give a warning to the
scribes and Pharisees that their place in heaven is going to be given up to
others, namely the blind, poor and lame. One of the differences in Matthew is
the added detail that Luke does not contain. In Matthew there is a king that has
prepared the great feast for his son. The servants sent out to invite theses
people are the serv...

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