And he sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come.

Again he sent forth other servants, saying, `Tell them that are bidden, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come unto the marriage."'

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

"Therefore also said the wisdom of God: `I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute,'

And he sent his servant at suppertime to say to them that were bidden, `Come, for all things are now ready.'

So that servant came and showed his lord these things. 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 hither the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind.'

And the lord said unto the servant, `Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were beseeching you by us: we pray you on Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

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

For she sitteth at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city,

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.

"How long, ye simple ones, will ye love to be simple, and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Doth not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors:

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.

Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple whither the Jews always resort, and in secret have I said nothing.