Daily Devotions

“But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes, and he said to him, ‘Friend,…

“So go to the main roads, and invite whomever you find there to the wedding feast.’  Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all whom they found,…

“Now the king was angry, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.  Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding feast is…

“But they paid no attention and went their separate ways, one to his own farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his slaves and treated them abusively, and…

“And he sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.  Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those…

“Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who held a wedding feast for his son” (Matthew 22:1-2). Many of Jesus parables…

“When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.  And although they sought to arrest Him, they feared the crowds, since…

“Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruit.  And the one who falls on this…

“Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘A stone which the builders rejected, This has become the chief cornerstone; This came about from the Lord, And…

“Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?”  They said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease…